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FreeBSD: VID-FE93803C-883F-11E8-9F0C-001B216D295B (CVE-2018-1000180): Several Security Defects in the Bouncy Castle Crypto APIs

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FreeBSD: VID-FE93803C-883F-11E8-9F0C-001B216D295B (CVE-2018-1000180): Several Security Defects in the Bouncy Castle Crypto APIs

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
06/05/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/16/2018
Modified
11/04/2022

Description

Bouncy Castle BC 1.54 - 1.59, BC-FJA 1.0.0, BC-FJA 1.0.1 and earlier have a flaw in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator, specifically RSA Key Pairs generated in low-level API with added certainty may have less M-R tests than expected. This appears to be fixed in versions BC 1.60 beta 4 and later, BC-FJA 1.0.2 and later.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-bouncycastle
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-bouncycastle15
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-puppetserver
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-puppetserver5
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-puppetserver6

References

  • DSA-4233
  • CVE-2018-1000180

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