CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-1600

7.5 HIGH Published 2005-05-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-05-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

A "mathematical flaw" in the implementation of the El Gamal signature algorithm for LibTomCrypt 1.0 to 1.0.2 allows attackers to generate valid signatures without having the private key.

Affected configurations

• libtomcrypt libtomcrypt 1.0 • libtomcrypt libtomcrypt 1.0.1 • libtomcrypt libtomcrypt 1.0.2

References