Cryptographic Issues Affecting nettle package, versions <3.2-1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.49% (77th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-NETTLE-301980
- published 23 Feb 2016
- disclosed 23 Feb 2016
How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
nettle
to version 3.2-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nettle
package and not the nettle
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
x86_64/ecc-384-modp.asm in Nettle before 3.2 does not properly handle carry propagation and produces incorrect output in its implementation of the P-384 NIST elliptic curve, which allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8804
- https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/commit/fa269b6ad06dd13c901dbd84a12e52b918a09cd7
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/38-Miscomputations-of-elliptic-curve-scalar-multiplications-in-Nettle.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-01/msg00006.html
- https://lists.lysator.liu.se/pipermail/nettle-bugs/2015/003024.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00091.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00093.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00100.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/02/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/03/1
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2582.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-8804
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2897-1
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