MGASA-2016-0061

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    MGASA-2016-0061

    Published: 9 Feb 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated nettle packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Updated nettle2.7 and nettle packages fix security vulnerabilities: Two carry propagation bugs in elliptic curve scalar multiplications that affect the NIST P-256 curve. The bugs are in the C code and affect multiple architectures (CVE-2015-8803, CVE-2015-8805). A carry propagation bug in elliptic curve scalar multiplications that affect the NIST P-384 curve. The bug is in the assembly code and only affects the x86_64 architecture (CVE-2015-8804).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0061.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17669, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/03/1, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176807.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nettle2.7

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/nettle2.7?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.7.1-6.1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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