GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-r97x-3g8f-gx3m The Bouncy Castle JCE Provider carry a propagation bug

HIGH Published 2018-10-17 Modified 2025-09-12 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2016-1000340
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• Maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14: >= 1.51, < 1.56 → fixed in 1.56 • Maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15: >= 1.51, < 1.56 → fixed in 1.56 • Maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on: >= 1.51, < 1.56 → fixed in 1.56

Description

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider versions 1.51 to 1.55, a carry propagation bug was introduced in the implementation of squaring for several raw math classes have been fixed (org.bouncycastle.math.raw.Nat???). These classes are used by our custom elliptic curve implementations (org.bouncycastle.math.ec.custom.**), so there was the possibility of rare (in general usage) spurious calculations for elliptic curve scalar multiplications. Such errors would have been detected with high probability by the output validation for our scalar multipliers.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2016-1000340 In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider versions 1.51 to 1.55, a carry propagation bug was introduced in the implementation of squaring for… vulnerability

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