RULE(RULE ID:714648)

Rule General Information
Release Date: 2019-07-06
Rule Name: Mozilla Network Security Services Regexp Heap Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2009-2404)
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CVE ID:
Rule Protection Details
Description: Heap-based buffer overflow in a regular-expression parser in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.12.3, as used in Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Evolution, Pidgin, and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), allows remote SSL servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, related to the cert_TestHostName function.
Impact: An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to have unspecified effect.
Affected OS: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Other Unix, Network Device, Mac OS, iOS, Android, Others
Reference: SecurityFocusBID:35891
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1185.html
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-273910-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021030.1-1
Solutions
The vendors have released upgrade patches to fix vulnerabilities, please visit:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id;=504456