Unchecked Input for Loop Condition Affecting candlepin-selinux package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-CANDLEPINSELINUX-20922551
  • published14 Oct 2026
  • disclosed3 Oct 2026

Introduced: 3 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-97873  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-606  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 candlepin-selinux.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream candlepin-selinux package and not the candlepin-selinux package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.86, the raw JCA provider's legacy PBES1 (PKCS#5 scheme 1) and PKCS#12 PBE families ran their password-based key derivation with an iteration count taken from untrusted input without bounding it, so a small input could dictate an arbitrary amount of work before anything could be verified. The AlgorithmParameters implementations (PKCS12PBE and its object identifier aliases, and PBKDF1) accepted any count from an encoded PKCS12PBEParams or PBEParameter, narrowing a value beyond the int range with intValue(), and every Cipher, Mac and SecretKeyFactory in these families derived with whatever count it was given, including one decoded by another provider's AlgorithmParameters, as when javax.crypto.EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo.getKeySpec() decrypts a PKCS#12 PBE-protected private key with BC. Both the parameter parse and the derivations now reject a negative or over-limit count under the org.bouncycastle.pbe.max_iteration_count property (default 10,000,000) that already bounded PBKDF2 (CVE-2026-17508), and the parse rejects a count beyond the int range rather than narrowing it. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.13.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1