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CVE-2005-2643

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2005-08-17 tor -- diffie-hellman handshake flaw

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2005-2643
Phase Assigned(20050821)

Description

Tor 0.1.0.13 and earlier, and experimental versions 0.1.1.4-alpha and earlier, does not reject certain weak keys when using ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (DH) handshakes, which allows malicious Tor servers to obtain the keys that a client uses for other systems in the circuit.

References

Source Reference
MLIST [or-announce] 20050811 Tor security advisory: DH handshake flaw
BUGTRAQ 20050819 Fwd: Tor security advisory: DH handshake flaw
SECTRACK 1014739
SECUNIA 16424