CVE-2017-7781/CVE-2017-10176: Issue with elliptic curve addition in mixed Jacobian-affine coordinates in Firefox/Java

tl;dr Firefox and Java suffered from a moderate vulnerability affecting the elliptic curve point addition algorithm that uses mixed Jacobian-affine coordinates where it can yield a result POINTATINFINITY when it should not. Introduction Few months ago I was working on a vulnerability affecting th...

CVE-2017-7781

An error occurs in the elliptic curve point addition algorithm that uses mixed Jacobian-affine coordinates where it can yield a result "POINTATINFINITY" 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...

KLA11082 Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Firefox and Firefox ESR. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service, privilege escalation, spoof user interface, bypass security restrictions, obtain sensitive information and execute arbitrary code. Below is...