Bug 2302458 (CVE-2024-42459) - CVE-2024-42459 elliptic: nodejs/elliptic: EDDSA signature malleability due to missing signature length check
Summary: CVE-2024-42459 elliptic: nodejs/elliptic: EDDSA signature malleability due to...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-42459
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2303781 2303782 2303783 2303784 2303785 2303787
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-08-02 07:20 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-04-18 08:27 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:6738 0 None None None 2024-09-17 19:47:43 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:6779 0 None None None 2024-09-18 19:22:28 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:7759 0 None None None 2024-10-07 15:27:55 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:7994 0 None None None 2024-10-11 01:44:41 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-08-02 07:20:36 UTC 
In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, EDDSA signature malleability occurs because there is a missing signature length check, and thus zero-valued bytes can be removed or appended.
Comment 1 Alberto Gutierrez 2024-08-14 08:38:27 UTC 
https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317 was merged 6 hours ago bumping th version to the 6.5.7 fixing:

CVE-2024-42459
CVE-2024-42460
CVE-2024-42461

NPM library published https://www.npmjs.com/package/elliptic
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-17 19:47:42 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.5 for RHEL 8
  multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.5 for RHEL 9

Via RHSA-2024:6738 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6738
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-18 19:22:27 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.10 for RHEL 9

Via RHSA-2024:6779 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6779
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2024-10-07 15:27:54 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.6 for RHEL 9
  multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.6 for RHEL 8

Via RHSA-2024:7759 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7759
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2024-10-11 01:44:40 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9

Via RHSA-2024:7994 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7994
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