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GHSA-8xfc-gm6g-vgpv: Bouncy Castle certificate parsing issues cause high CPU usage during parameter evaluation.
An issue was discovered in ECCurve.java and ECCurve.cs in Bouncy Castle Java (BC Java) before 1.78, BC Java LTS before 2.73.6, BC-FJA before 1.0.2.5, and BC C# .Net before 2.3.1. Importing an EC certificate with crafted F2m parameters can lead to excessive CPU consumption during the evaluation of the curve parameters.
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- GitHub Advisory Database
- GitHub Reviewed
- CVE-2024-29857
Bouncy Castle certificate parsing issues cause high CPU usage during parameter evaluation.
Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 14, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 14, 2024
Package
nuget BouncyCastle (NuGet)
Affected versions
< 2.3.1
nuget BouncyCastle.Cryptography (NuGet)
maven org.bouncycastle:bc-fips (Maven)
maven org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk14 (Maven)
maven org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk15to18 (Maven)
maven org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk18on (Maven)
maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14 (Maven)
maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on (Maven)
maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18 (Maven)
maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18on (Maven)
maven org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk14 (Maven)
maven org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk15to18 (Maven)
maven org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk18on (Maven)
Description
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 14, 2024
Last updated
May 14, 2024
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