SA40145 - [Pulse Secure] January 28th 2016 OpenSSL Security Advisory

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OpenSSL Key Recovery Attack on DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)

Usual Mandatory Disclaimer: IANAC I am not a cryptographer so I might likely end up writing a bunch of mistakes in this blog post... tl;dr The OpenSSL 1.0.2 releases suffer from a Key Recovery Attack on DH small subgroups. This issue got assigned CVE-2016-0701 with a severity of High and OpenSSL...

Internet Bug Bounty: OpenSSL Key Recovery Attack on DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)

Full write up: http://intothesymmetry.blogspot.ch/2016/01/openssl-key-recovery-attack-on-dh-small.html DH small subgroups CVE-2016-0701 ================================== Severity: High Historically OpenSSL usually only ever generated DH parameters based on "safe" primes. More recently in version...