CVE-2011-1923

Summary

CVECVE-2011-1923
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-06-20 17:55:00 UTC
Updated2013-10-24 03:31:00 UTC
DescriptionThe Diffie-Hellman key-exchange implementation in dhm.c in PolarSSL before 0.14.2 does not properly validate a public parameter, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain the shared secret key by modifying network traffic, a related issue to CVE-2011-5095.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-310

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Polarssl Polarssl 0.10.0 All All All
Application Polarssl Polarssl 0.10.1 All All All
Application Polarssl Polarssl 0.11.0 All All All
Application Polarssl Polarssl 0.11.1 All All All
Application Polarssl Polarssl 0.12.0 All All All
Application Polarssl Polarssl 0.12.1 All All All
Application Polarssl Polarssl 0.13.1 All All All
Application Polarssl Polarssl All All All All
Application Polarssl Polarssl 0.10.0 All All All
Application Polarssl Polarssl 0.10.1 All All All
Application Polarssl Polarssl 0.11.0 All All All
Application Polarssl Polarssl 0.11.1 All All All
Application Polarssl Polarssl 0.12.0 All All All
Application Polarssl Polarssl 0.12.1 All All All
Application Polarssl Polarssl 0.13.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/psandqs.pdf MISC www.cl.cam.ac.uk
Nessus Plugin ID 53360 | Tenable Network Security MISC www.nessus.org
SecurityAdvisory201101 – PolarSSL Trac page CONFIRM polarssl.org Vendor Advisory
PolarSSL Diffie Hellman Key Exchange Security Bypass Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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