An error occurs 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. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 55.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T16:12:28.301Z
Reserved: 2017-04-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-7781
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:08.890
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:32:38.810
Link: CVE-2017-7781
Redhat