vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2015-8803: nettle -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 23, 2016
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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

debian-upgrade-nettle
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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