Bug 2524912 - CVE-2026-13506 bouncycastle: Bouncy Castle for Java: Denial of Service via lazy ASN.1 sequence processing [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-13506 bouncycastle: Bouncy Castle for Java: Denial of Service via la...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: bouncycastle
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Mat Booth
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-13506
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Reported: 2026-08-27 10:45 UTC by Sandipan Roy
Modified: 2026-08-27 10:45 UTC (History)
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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).
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