Bug 2524918

Summary: CVE-2026-12185 bouncycastle: Bouncy Castle: Denial of Service via untrusted keystore length allocation [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 10:45:39 UTC
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In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, BKS/UBER keystore allocates from untrusted lengths before integrity check. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12.