CVE-2018-1000180

NameCVE-2018-1000180
DescriptionBouncy Castle BC 1.54 - 1.59, BC-FJA 1.0.0, BC-FJA 1.0.1 and earlier have a flaw in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator, specifically RSA Key Pairs generated in low-level API with added certainty may have less M-R tests than expected. This appears to be fixed in versions BC 1.60 beta 4 and later, BC-FJA 1.0.2 and later.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-4233-1
Debian Bugs900843

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
bouncycastlesourcejessie(not affected)
bouncycastlesourcestretch1.56-1+deb9u2DSA-4233-1
bouncycastlesource(unstable)1.59-2900843

Notes

[jessie] - bouncycastle <not-affected> (Issue introduced in 1.54)
Fixed by: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/22467b6e8fe19717ecdf201c0cf91bacf04a55ad
Fixed by: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/73780ac522b7795fc165630aba8d5f5729acc839
Introduced by: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/a47c9eff26101f2969bb2a9627ca721b135c9d47
https://www.bouncycastle.org/jira/browse/BJA-694

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