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Cryptographic Issues Affecting nettle package, versions <3.2-1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.87% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-NETTLE-302007
  • published 23 Feb 2016
  • disclosed 23 Feb 2016
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Introduced: 23 Feb 2016

CVE-2015-8803 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-310 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-254 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

The ecc_256_modp function in ecc-256.c in Nettle before 3.2 does not properly handle carry propagation and produces incorrect output in its implementation of the P-256 NIST elliptic curve, which allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8805.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Red Hat

5.4 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None