Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bouncycastle  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-BOUNCYCASTLE-617708
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed13 Dec 2017

Introduced: 13 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-13098  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-203  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bouncycastle package and not the bouncycastle package as distributed by Ubuntu.

BouncyCastle TLS prior to version 1.0.3, when configured to use the JCE (Java Cryptography Extension) for cryptographic functions, provides a weak Bleichenbacher oracle when any TLS cipher suite using RSA key exchange is negotiated. An attacker can recover the private key from a vulnerable application. This vulnerability is referred to as "ROBOT."