Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bouncycastle  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-BOUNCYCASTLE-599427
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed8 Oct 2019

Introduced: 8 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17359  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:11.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bouncycastle package and not the bouncycastle package as distributed by Debian.

The ASN.1 parser in Bouncy Castle Crypto (aka BC Java) 1.63 can trigger a large attempted memory allocation, and resultant OutOfMemoryError error, via crafted ASN.1 data. This is fixed in 1.64.

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