CVE-2014-1559

Mozilla: Certificate parsing broken by non-standard character encoding (MFSA 2014-65)

Published Jul 23, 2014 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 1.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (X.509 certificate parsing outage) via a crafted certificate that does not use UTF-8 character encoding in a required context, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1558.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-1635 Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (X.509 certificate parsing outage) via a crafted certificate that does not use UTF-8 character encoding in a required context, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1558.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2295-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2296-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mozilla
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 9:42 AM
Reserved
Jan 16, 2014, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jul 23, 2014, 11:12 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:05 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jul 22, 2014, 12:00 AM