UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1559

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1559

    Published: 22 Jul 2014Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-1559

    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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1559, https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-65.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2295-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2296-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-1559

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: firefox

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

    Affected versions

    24.0+build1-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High