Advisories » MGASA-2015-0487

Updated bouncycastle packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 28 Dec 2015
Modification date: 28 Dec 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2015-7940

Description

The Bouncy Castle Java library before 1.51 does not validate a point is withing
the elliptic curve, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain
private keys via a series of crafted elliptic curve Diffie Hellman (ECDH) key
exchanges, aka an "invalid curve attack" (CVE-2015-7940).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16996
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00036.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7940

SRPMS

5/core

• bouncycastle-1.50-3.1.mga5