ubuntu-cve-2014-1559
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2014-07-22 00:00
Modified
2026-04-22 07:37
Summary
Details

Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (X.509 certificate parsing outage) via a crafted certificate that does not use UTF-8 character encoding in a required context, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1558.

Severity
N/A (UNKNOWN)
low
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "firefox",
            "binary_version": "31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "firefox-globalmenu",
            "binary_version": "31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "firefox-mozsymbols",
            "binary_version": "31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "firefox-testsuite",
            "binary_version": "31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "firefox",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/firefox@31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "24.0+build1-0ubuntu1",
        "25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1",
        "28.0~b2+build1-0ubuntu2",
        "28.0+build1-0ubuntu1",
        "28.0+build2-0ubuntu1",
        "28.0+build2-0ubuntu2",
        "29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
        "30.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "thunderbird",
            "binary_version": "1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "thunderbird-globalmenu",
            "binary_version": "1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "thunderbird-gnome-support",
            "binary_version": "1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "thunderbird-mozsymbols",
            "binary_version": "1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "thunderbird-testsuite",
            "binary_version": "1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "xul-ext-calendar-timezones",
            "binary_version": "1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "xul-ext-gdata-provider",
            "binary_version": "1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "xul-ext-lightning",
            "binary_version": "1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "thunderbird",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/thunderbird@1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu1",
        "1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu2",
        "1:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.1",
        "1:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu1",
        "1:24.2.0+build1-0ubuntu1",
        "1:24.4.0+build1-0ubuntu1",
        "1:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1",
        "1:24.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (X.509 certificate parsing outage) via a crafted certificate that does not use UTF-8 character encoding in a required context, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1558.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1559",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:37:41Z",
  "published": "2014-07-22T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1559"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-65.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2295-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2296-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-1559"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-2295-1",
    "USN-2296-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "low",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2014-1559"
  ]
}



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