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CVE-2014-1544

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-07-23 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CERT_DestroyCertificate function in libnss3.so in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) 3.x, as used in Firefox before 31.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.7, and Thunderbird before 24.7, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger certain improper removal of an NSSCertificate structure from a trust domain.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 30.0; 24.0, 24.0.1, 24.0.2, 24.1.0, 24.1.1
• Mozilla Firefox ESR: 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, 24.6
• Mozilla Network Security Services: 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.3, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.4 (+45)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: through 24.6; 24.0, 24.0.1, 24.1, 24.1.1, 24.2, 24.3 (+2)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/59591
• http://secunia.com/advisories/59719
• http://secunia.com/advisories/59760
• http://secunia.com/advisories/60083
• http://secunia.com/advisories/60486
• http://secunia.com/advisories/60621
• http://secunia.com/advisories/60628
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2986
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2996
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-63.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html

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