CVE-2011-5095 - Unblenched Sumatran Tiger

Description

The Diffie-Hellman key-exchange implementation in OpenSSL 0.9.8 when FIPS mode is enabled 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-2011-1923.

Reference

http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=53360 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/psandqs.pdf https://discussions.nessus.org/thread/3381