vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-1000345: bouncycastle -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jun 4, 2018
Added
Feb 20, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier the DHIES/ECIES CBC mode vulnerable to padding oracle attack. For BC 1.55 and older, in an environment where timings can be easily observed, it is possible with enough observations to identify when the decryption is failing due to padding.

Solution

debian-upgrade-bouncycastle
Title
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