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CVE-2015-8805

Published: Feb 23, 2016 | Modified: Oct 30, 2018
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
5.8 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8805
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/310.html

The ecc_256_modq function in ecc-256.c in Nettle before 3.2 does not properly handle carry propagation and produces incorrect output in its implementation of the P-256 NIST elliptic curve, which allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8803.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Nettle Nettle_project * 3.1.1 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat nettle-0:2.7.1-8.el7 *
Nettle Ubuntu trusty *
Nettle Ubuntu upstream *
Nettle Ubuntu vivid *
Nettle Ubuntu vivid/stable-phone-overlay *
Nettle Ubuntu vivid/ubuntu-core *
Nettle Ubuntu wily *

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