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Ubuntu: USN-2897-1 (CVE-2015-8804): Nettle vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 15, 2016
Added
Feb 15, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libnettle4ubuntu-upgrade-libnettle6
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