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CVE-2020-28052 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bouncycastle  (opens in a new tab)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-DEBIAN9-BOUNCYCASTLE-1052900
  • published19 Dec 2020
  • disclosed18 Dec 2020
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Introduced: 18 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-28052  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:9.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC Java 1.65 and 1.66. The OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility method compared incorrect data when checking the password, allowing incorrect passwords to indicate they were matching with previously hashed ones that were different.

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