CVE-2014-1559
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CVE-2014-1559 is a vulnerability of currently unknown severity. 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.. EPSS estimates a 1.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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 Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox | <= 30.0 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | <= 24.7 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | 24.0 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | 24.0.1 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | 24.1 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | 24.1.1 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | 24.2 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | 24.3 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | 24.4 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | 24.5 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | 24.6 |
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