Source: bouncycastle Version: 1.72-2 Severity: important Tags: security upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: car...@debian.org, Debian Security Team <t...@security.debian.org>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for bouncycastle. CVE-2023-33202[0]: | Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.73 contains a potential Denial of | Service (DoS) issue within the Bouncy Castle | org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMParser class. This class parses OpenSSL | PEM encoded streams containing X.509 certificates, PKCS8 encoded | keys, and PKCS7 objects. Parsing a file that has crafted ASN.1 data | through the PEMParser causes an OutOfMemoryError, which can enable a | denial of service attack. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-33202 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-33202 [1] https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2023-33202 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.
