Bug#884241: bouncycastle: CVE-2017-13098

[Markus Koschany]

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I'm working on a fix right now.

Markus



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Bug#884241: bouncycastle: CVE-2017-13098

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: bouncycastle
Version: 1.57-1
Severity: grave
Tags: patch security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for bouncycastle.

CVE-2017-13098[0]:
| Information leak by distinguish valid and invalid RSA PKCS #1 v1.5
| paddings based on different server responses.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-13098
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13098
[1] 
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/a00b684465b38d722ca9a3543b8af8568e6bad5c
[2] https://downloads.bouncycastle.org/betas/
[3] https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/144389

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore

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