| Name | CVE-2024-42461 |
| Description | In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, ECDSA signature malleability occurs because BER-encoded signatures are allowed. |
| 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 | 1077821 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| node-elliptic (PTS) | buster | 6.4.1~dfsg-1+deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 6.5.4~dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 6.5.4~dfsg-2 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 6.5.7+dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - node-elliptic <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - node-elliptic <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317
https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/accb61e9c1a005e5c8ff96a8b33893100bb42d11 (v6.5.7)