Bug 2523394

Summary:	CVE-2026-14682 jglobus: Bouncy Castle for Java: Denial of Service due to unbounded memory allocation [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jon Weiser <jweiser>
Component:	jglobus	Assignee:	Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jon Weiser 2026-08-25 11:59:04 UTC

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In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Possible OOM from unbounded up-front allocation on a definite-length read. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bc-fips 1.0.2.7 (1.0.X series), 2.0.2 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.3 (2.1.X series), and before bctls-fips 1.0.24.