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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:40:27 -0700
From: Reed Loden <reed@...dloden.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: jlieskov@...hat.com, "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>, Elio
Maldonado <emaldona@...hat.com>, Robert Relyea <rrelyea@...hat.com>, Dan
Veditz <dveditz@...illa.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- nss: Did honour /pkcs11.txt and
/secmod.db files by initialization
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:30:23 +0200
Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com> wrote:
> 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
Mozilla is a CNA. Any reason you aren't requesting the CVE from them
since NSS is a Mozilla product? Also, the upstream bug isn't tagged as a
security issue, so Mozilla might not even know about this problem.
cc'ing Dan Veditz of the Mozilla Security Group for CVE assignment and
notification.
~reed
--
Reed Loden
reed@...dloden.com
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