CVE-2016-1000342

NameCVE-2016-1000342
DescriptionIn the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier ECDSA does not fully validate ASN.1 encoding of signature on verification. It is possible to inject extra elements in the sequence making up the signature and still have it validate, which in some cases may allow the introduction of 'invisible' data into a signed structure.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1418-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
bouncycastle (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.49+dfsg-3+deb8u3fixed
stretch (security)1.56-1+deb9u3fixed
stretch (lts), stretch1.56-1+deb9u4fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)1.60-1+deb10u1fixed
bullseye1.68-2fixed
bookworm1.72-2fixed
sid, trixie1.77-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
bouncycastlesourcewheezy(unfixed)end-of-life
bouncycastlesourcejessie1.49+dfsg-3+deb8u3DLA-1418-1
bouncycastlesource(unstable)1.56-1

Notes

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/843c2e60f67d71faf81d236f448ebbe56c62c647#diff-25c3c78db788365f36839b3f2d3016b9

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