vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2015-8803: nettle Miscomputations of elliptic curve scalar multiplications
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Feb 23, 2016 | Aug 30, 2017 | Jan 8, 2018 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 23, 2016
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Jan 8, 2018
Description
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.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-nettle
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