Bug 1304382 (CVE-2015-8805)

Summary: CVE-2015-8805 nettle: secp256 calculation bug
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: carnil, dwmw2, hkario, klember, mike, nmavrogi, pwouters, slawomir, thoger, tmraz
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Fixed In Version: nettle 3.2 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On: 1304304, 1304305, 1304306, 1304308, 1305766, 1314374    
Bug Blocks: 1304384    

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-02-03 13:04:47 UTC 
A mistake in the computation of elliptic curve scalar multiplications was found in nettle.

Oss-security reference:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/266

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/273

Upstream fix:

https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/commit/c71d2c9d20eeebb985e3872e4550137209e3ce4d
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2016-02-09 07:53:35 UTC 
Fixed upstream in nettle 3.2:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-01/msg00006.html
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-03 19:31:13 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:2582 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2582.html