Denial of Service Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey

CVE-2014-1498 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The crypto.generateCRMFRequest method in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.25 does not properly validate a certain key type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors that trigger generation of a key that supports the Elliptic Curve ec-dual-use algorithm.

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