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NSS Netscape Certificate Sequences CERT_DecodeCertPackage() Crash

🗓️ 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00Reported by Tavis OrmandyType 
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NSS Netscape Certificate Sequences CERT_DecodeCertPackage() crash with DER blobs decoding in NS

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`nss: CERT_DecodeCertPackage() crash with Netscape Certificate Sequences   
  
  
  
I noticed that the main entrypoint for decoding DER blobs in NSS, CERT_DecodeCertPackage(), actually handles multiple formats including PEM, PKCS7, and old Netscape Certificate Sequences.  
  
You can generate a Netscape Certificate Sequence with the OpenSSL nseq tool, I just did this:  
  
$ openssl nseq -in mail.google.com.pem -toseq -out nseq.pem  
I guessed that this format might not have been as well audited as others, so fuzzed it and it crashed with a NULL deref quickly.  
  
Test case attached, I'm guessing this means any client or server that handles untrusted certificates can be crashed, I didn't try it against Firefox.  
  
You can verify it like this:  
  
$ certutil -d \".\" -A -n test -t \"p,p,p\" -i nss-nseq-crash.der  
Segmentation fault  
  
I reported this upstream as a denial of service issue, some network daemons use NSS (like slapd, iirc)  
  
This bug is subject to a 90 day disclosure deadline. After 90 days elapse  
or a patch has been made broadly available (whichever is earlier), the bug  
report will become visible to the public.  
  
  
  
Found by: [email protected]  
  
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