CVE-2024-11705 (GCVE-0-2024-11705)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-26 13:34 – Updated: 2024-11-27 15:14
VLAI
Summary
`NSC_DeriveKey` inadvertently assumed that the `phKey` parameter is always non-NULL. When it was passed as NULL, a segmentation fault (SEGV) occurred, leading to crashes. This behavior conflicted with the PKCS#11 v3.0 specification, which allows `phKey` to be NULL for certain mechanisms. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 133 and Thunderbird < 133.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-11-27 15:11 UTC
CWE
  • Null Pointer Dereference in NSC_DeriveKey
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 133 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 133 (custom)
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mozilla firefox Affected: 0 , < 133 (custom)
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mozilla thunderbird Affected: 0 , < 133 (custom)
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