Bug 1391818 (CVE-2016-8635)

Summary: CVE-2016-8635 nss: small-subgroups attack flaw
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dueno, hkario, kengert, rrelyea, security-response-team, slawomir, yozone
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It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS was vulnerable to small subgroup confinement attack. An attacker could use this flaw to recover private keys by confining the client DH key to small subgroup of the desired group.
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-11-04 06:40:23 UTC 
It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS, was vulnerable to small subgroup confinement attack[1]. An attacker could use this flaw to recover private keys by confining the client DH key to small subgroup of the desired group.


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_subgroup_confinement_attack
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-11-15 04:31:06 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Hubert Kario (Red Hat)
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-16 05:59:43 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2016:2779 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2779.html