Bug 1479197 (CVE-2017-7781) - CVE-2017-7781 Mozilla: Elliptic curve point addition error when using mixed Jacobian-affine coordinates (MFSA 2017-18)
Summary: CVE-2017-7781 Mozilla: Elliptic curve point addition error when using mixed J...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-7781
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1485769
Blocks: 1484228
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-08 06:38 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-17 01:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-08-28 04:02:52 UTC
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Description Doran Moppert 2017-08-08 06:38:04 UTC 
An error in the elliptic curve point addition algorithm that uses mixed Jacobian-affine coordinates where it can yield a result `POINT_AT_INFINITY` when it should not. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this to interfere with a connection, resulting in an attacked party computing an incorrect shared secret.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-18/#CVE-2017-7781


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Antonio Sanso
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2017-08-14 09:21:21 UTC 
Upstream commit:

https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/6d1f5f958100

Upstream bug report, which is still non-pubic:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1352039
Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-08-28 04:02:12 UTC 
Created nss-softokn tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1485769]
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