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


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.59% (79th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-472372
  • published 8 Oct 2019
  • disclosed 8 Oct 2019
  • credit Uknown

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.