UBUNTU-CVE-2024-29857

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2024-29857

    Published: 14 May 2024Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2024-29857
    Aliases:
    USN-8108-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-29857, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29857, https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/issues/1635, https://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8108-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: bouncycastle

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.49+dfsg-3ubuntu1

    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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