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CVE-2017-7781 - log back

CVE-2017-7781 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity	+ Medium
Remote	+ Remote
Type	+ Incorrect calculation
Description	+ An elliptic curve point addition error has been found in Firefox < 55.0. 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.
References	+ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-18/#CVE-2017-7781 + https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1352039
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