It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS 3.21.x 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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-9478 It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS 3.21.x 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3163-1 NSS vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:27:41.258Z

Reserved: 2016-10-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-8635

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-08-01T13:29:00.217

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:59:43.907

Link: CVE-2016-8635

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-11-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-8635 - Bugzilla

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