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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:08:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: hertzog@...ian.org
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: invalid curve attack on bouncycastle

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> bouncycastle versions older than 1.51 are vulnerable to an
> invalid curve attack as described in this article:
> http://web-in-security.blogspot.ca/2015/09/practical-invalid-curve-attacks.html
> 
> The attack allows to extract private keys used in elliptic curve
> cryptography with a few thousands queries.
> 
> According to upstream developer Peter Dettman, the issue has been fixed
> with those two commits:
> https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/5cb2f0578e6ec8f0d67e59d05d8c4704d8e05f83
> https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/e25e94a046a6934819133886439984e2fecb2b04

Use CVE-2015-7940.

A Bouncy Castle product intentionally has a unique CVE ID because of its
independent codebase. However, as noted in
the practical-invalid-curve-attacks.html posting, the issue is related
to CVE-2015-2613. The MITRE CVE team plans to update
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2613 to
reflect the additional information from Juraj Somorovsky.

- -- 
CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority
M/S M300
202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA
[ PGP key available through http://cve.mitre.org/cve/request_id.html ]
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