Bug 2390278 (CVE-2025-9341)

Summary: CVE-2025-9341 org.bouncycastle/bc-fips: Garbage collection can delay for AES CBC Native support, resulting in heap exhaustion
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-22 10:01:17 UTC
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS bc-fips on All (API modules) allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files org/bouncycastle/crypto/fips/AESNativeCBC.Java.

This issue affects Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS: from BC-FJA 2.1.0 through 2.1.0.