Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 23, 2014· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2014-1559
CVE-2014-1559
Description
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.
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Affected products
14cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=30.0
- (no CPE)range: <31.0
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 10 more
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=24.7
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:24.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:24.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:24.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:24.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:24.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:24.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:24.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:24.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:24.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <31.0
Patches
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References
7- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-65.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/60628nvd
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlnvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1030619nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1030620nvd
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01nvd
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