CVE-2025-8916

Name	CVE-2025-8916
Description	Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java bcpkix, bcprov, bcpkix-fips on All (API modules) allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files https://github.Com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/pkix/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/pkix/jcajce/PKIXCertP... https://github.Com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/pkix/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/pkix/jcajce/PKIXCertPathReviewer.java , https://github.Com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/prov/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/x509/PKIXCertPathRevi... https://github.Com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/prov/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/x509/PKIXCertPathReviewer.java . This issue affects Bouncy Castle for Java: from BC 1.44 through 1.78, from BCPKIX FIPS 1.0.0 through 1.0.7, from BCPKIX FIPS 2.0.0 through 2.0.7.
Source	CVE (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 Package	Release	Version	Status
bouncycastle (PTS)	bullseye	1.68-2	vulnerable
	bookworm	1.72-2	vulnerable
	forky, sid, trixie	1.80-3	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
bouncycastle	source	(unstable)	1.80-1

Notes

[bookworm] - bouncycastle <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - bouncycastle <postponed> (minor issue; DoS)
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902025%E2%80%908916
Fixed by: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/310b30a4fbf36d13f6cc201ffa7771715641e67e (r1rv79)
Fixed by: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/ff444a479942d88de64004dc82c3ee32a9e9075a (r1rv79)