CVE-2014-1498 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-1498?

CVE-2014-1498 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 19 Mar 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The crypto.generateCRMFRequest method in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.25 does not properly validate a certain key type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors that trigger generation of a key that supports the Elliptic Curve ec-dual-use algorithm.

Weakness: CWE-347

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1498?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Opensuse Opensuse, Opensuse Project Opensuse, Oracle Solaris, Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1498?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-1498 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1498 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

• CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3765 Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-6r88-384v-fg82.