Bug 1305159 (CVE-2016-1938) - CVE-2016-1938 Mozilla NSS: Errors in mp_div and mp_exptmod cryptographic functions
Summary: CVE-2016-1938 Mozilla NSS: Errors in mp_div and mp_exptmod cryptographic func...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-1938
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1305160
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Reported: 2016-02-05 21:07 UTC by Kurt Seifried
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:43 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-02-12 08:17:59 UTC

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Description Kurt Seifried 2016-02-05 21:07:22 UTC 
The Mozilla Project reports:

Security researcher Hanno Böck reported that calculations with mp_div and mp_exptmod in Network Security Services (NSS) can produce wrong results in some circumstances. These functions are used within NSS for a variety of cryptographic division functions, leading to potential cryptographic weaknesses.

External references:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-07/
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/37-Mozilla-NSS-Wrong-calculation-results-in-mp_div-and-mp_exptmod.html
https://github.com/hannob/bignum-fuzz/blob/master/CVE-2016-1938-nss-mp_div.c
https://github.com/hannob/bignum-fuzz/blob/master/CVE-2016-1938-nss-mp_exptmod.c
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/diff/a555bf0fc23a/lib/freebl/mpi/mpi.c
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-02-12 08:23:36 UTC 
This issue has been addressed upstream via nss-3.21
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