| Name | CVE-2024-29857 |
| Description | An issue was discovered in ECCurve.java and ECCurve.cs in Bouncy Castle Java (BC Java) before 1.78, BC Java LTS before 2.73.6, BC-FJA before 1.0.2.5, and BC C# .Net before 2.3.1. Importing an EC certificate with crafted F2m parameters can lead to excessive CPU consumption during the evaluation of the curve parameters. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1070655 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| bouncycastle (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.49+dfsg-3+deb8u3 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 1.56-1+deb9u3 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1.56-1+deb9u4 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1.60-1+deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 1.68-2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1.72-2 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 1.77-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - bouncycastle <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - bouncycastle <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - bouncycastle <postponed> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/issues/1635
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/fee80dd230e7fba132d03a34f1dd1d6aae0d0281 (r1rv78v1)
[jessie] - bouncycastle <postponed> (Minor issue)