UBUNTU-CVE-2023-50980

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-50980

    Published: 18 Dec 2023Last Modified: 20 May 2026
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    Summary:

    Details: gf2n.cpp in Crypto++ (aka cryptopp) through 8.9.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via DER public-key data for an F(2^m) curve, if the degree of each term in the polynomial is not strictly decreasing.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libcrypto++

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libcrypto%2B%2B?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    5.6.1-6
    5.6.1-6+deb8u1build0.14.04.1
    5.6.1-6+deb8u3build0.14.04.1
    5.6.1-6+deb8u3ubuntu0.1~esm1

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