Security Advisory

CVE-2009-2404

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-08-03 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 05:52:14
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in a regular-expression parser in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.12.3, as used in Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Evolution, Pidgin, and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), allows remote SSL servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long domain name in the subjects Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, related to the cert_TestHostName function.