vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2015-8804: 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

x86_64/ecc-384-modp.asm in Nettle before 3.2 does not properly handle carry propagation and produces incorrect output in its implementation of the P-384 NIST elliptic curve, which allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

Solution

debian-upgrade-nettle
Title
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