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Red Hat: CVE-2015-8804: Moderate: nettle security and bug fix update (RHSA-2016:2582)

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Red Hat: CVE-2015-8804: Moderate: nettle security and bug fix update (RHSA-2016:2582)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/23/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/04/2016
Modified
01/17/2018

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(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-nettle
  • redhat-upgrade-nettle-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-nettle-devel

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