FreeBSD : NSS -- multiple vulnerabilities (c4292768-5273-4f17-a267-c5fe35125ce4)

Mozilla Foundation reports : Security researcher Francis Gabriel reported a heap-based buffer overflow in the way the Network Security Services NSS libraries parsed certain ASN.1 structures. An attacker could create a specially crafted certificate which, when parsed by NSS, would cause it to cras...

Use-after-free during processing of DER encoded keys in NSS — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Tim Taubert used the Address Sanitizer tool and software fuzzing to discover a use-after-free vulnerability while processing DER encoded keys in the Network Security Services NSS libraries. The vulnerability overwrites the freed memory with zeroes. This issue has been addressed ...