CVE-2020-15522

NameCVE-2020-15522
DescriptionBouncy Castle BC Java before 1.66, BC C# .NET before 1.8.7, BC-FJA before 1.0.1.2, 1.0.2.1, and BC-FNA before 1.0.1.1 have a timing issue within the EC math library that can expose information about the private key when an attacker is able to observe timing information for the generation of multiple deterministic ECDSA signatures.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
bouncycastle (PTS)buster1.60-1vulnerable
buster (security)1.60-1+deb10u1vulnerable
bullseye1.68-2fixed
bookworm1.72-2fixed
sid, trixie1.77-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
bouncycastlesource(unstable)1.68-1

Notes

[buster] - bouncycastle <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - bouncycastle <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2020-15522

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