CVE-2015-8804
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Feb 23, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 2, 2016
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0486vendor-advisory
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/38-Miscomputations-of-elliptic-curve-scalar-multiplications-in-Nettle.html
- https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/commit/fa269b6ad06dd13c901dbd84a12e52b918a09cd7
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0477vendor-advisory
- [nettle-bugs] 20151211 Miscalculations on secp384 curvemailing-list
- USN-2897-1vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0475vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20160202 Miscomputations of elliptic curve scalar multiplications in Nettlemailing-list
- RHSA-2016:2582vendor-advisory
- [info-gnu] 20160128 ANNOUNCE: Nettle-3.2mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20160202 Re: Miscomputations of elliptic curve scalar multiplications in Nettlemailing-list
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