Bug 2524912

Summary: CVE-2026-13506 bouncycastle: Bouncy Castle for Java: Denial of Service via lazy ASN.1 sequence processing [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Sandipan Roy <saroy>
Component: bouncycastleAssignee: Mat Booth <mat.booth>
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Description Sandipan Roy 2026-08-27 10:45:13 UTC
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In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Lazy ASN.1 sequence forcing resets nesting-depth guard. 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).