Bug 1224304 (CVE-2024-30172)

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2024-30172: bouncycastle: infinite loop triggered via a crafted signature and public key
Product: [Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents Reporter: SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component: IncidentsAssignee: Pedro Monreal Gonzalez <pmonrealgonzalez>
Status: IN_PROGRESS --- QA Contact: Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: camila.matos, pmonrealgonzalez, stoyan.manolov
Version: unspecified   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/405118/
Whiteboard: CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-30172:7.5:(AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
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Description SMASH SMASH 2024-05-15 12:15:10 UTC 
An issue was discovered in Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography APIs before 1.78. An Ed25519 verification code infinite loop can occur via a crafted signature and public key.

References:
https://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-30172
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-30172
Comment 2 Camila Camargo de Matos 2024-05-15 12:18:30 UTC 
More information on the fix can be found here: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9030172