CVE-2024-29857

Name	CVE-2024-29857
Description	An issue was discovered in ECCurve.java and ECCurve.cs in Bouncy Castle Java (BC Java) before 1.78, BC Java LTS before 2.73.6, BC-FJA before 1.0.2.5, and BC C# .Net before 2.3.1. Importing an EC certificate with crafted F2m parameters can lead to excessive CPU consumption during the evaluation of the curve parameters.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	1070655

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
bouncycastle (PTS)	bullseye	1.68-2	vulnerable
	bookworm	1.72-2	vulnerable
	sid, trixie	1.77-1	vulnerable

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
bouncycastle	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)			1070655

Notes

[bookworm] - bouncycastle <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - bouncycastle <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - bouncycastle <postponed> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/issues/1635
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/fee80dd230e7fba132d03a34f1dd1d6aae0d0281 (r1rv78v1)