CVE-2015-8803
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2016-02-02 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
The ecc_256_modp function in ecc-256.c in Nettle before 3.2 does notproperly handle carry propagation and produces incorrect output in its implementation of the P-256 NIST elliptic curve, which allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8805.
See more information about CVE-2015-8803 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 5.8 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | None |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (nettle) | ELSA-2016-2582 | 2016-11-09 |
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