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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:32:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Elio Maldonado <emaldona@...hat.com>, Robert Relyea <rrelyea@...hat.com>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        Reed Loden <reed@...dloden.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- nss: Did honour /pkcs11.txt and /secmod.db files by initialization

Reed asked me to give this a CVE id.

Please use CVE-2011-3640

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

----- Original Message -----
> Hello Josh, Steve, vendors,
> 
>    a security flaw was found in the way nss, the Network Security
> Services (NSS) set of libraries, performed their initialization (the
> file path for "pkcs11.txt" configuration file was constructed
> incorrectly). When that configuration file was loaded from remote
> WebDAV
> or Samba CIFS share, it could lead to arbitrary security module
> load, potentially leading to execution of arbitrary code (execution
> of
> code from untrusted security module).
> 
> Upstream bug report:
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641052
> 
> Other references:
> [2] https://secunia.com/advisories/46557/
> [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388045
> [4] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426#c8
> [5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748379
> 
> Could you allocate a CVE id for this? (as it looks there isn't one
> for this deficiency yet)
> 
> Thank you && Regards, Jan.
> --
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team
>

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