Out-of-bounds Write Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on package, versions [1.63,1.64)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.06% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-472372
  • published8 Oct 2019
  • disclosed8 Oct 2019
  • creditUknown

Introduced: 8 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17359  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on to version 1.64 or higher.

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. The ASN.1 parser in can trigger a large attempted memory allocation, and resultant OutOfMemoryError error, via crafted ASN.1 data.

CVSS Scores

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