CVE-2011-1923 Information

Description

The 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.

Reference

http://polarssl.org/trac/wiki/SecurityAdvisory201101 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/psandqs.pdf http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=53360 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46670