CVE-2013-0791

medium
Published 2013-04-03 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
โ€”
CVSS v4 NEW
โ€”
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

The CERT_DecodeCertPackage function in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS), as used in Mozilla Firefox before 20.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, Thunderbird before 17.0.5, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, SeaMonkey before 2.17, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and memory corruption) via a crafted certificate.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
โ€”

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu10.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu11.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
debian debianbookwormfixed2:3.14.3-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2:3.14.3-1
debian debianforkyfixed2:3.14.3-1
debian debiansidfixed2:3.14.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2:3.14.3-1
ubuntu ubuntu12.10affected
redhat rhel5.0affected
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel5.9affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"20.0"}
mozilla mozillanetwork_security_services{"endExcluding":"3.15"}3.15
mozilla mozillaseamonkey{"endExcluding":"2.17"}2.17
mozilla mozillathunderbird{"endExcluding":"17.0.5"}17.0.5
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr{"startIncluding":"17.0","endExcluding":"17.0.5"}17.0.5
oracle oraclevm_server3.2

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.