UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8804

x86_64/ecc-384-modp.asm in Nettle before 3.2 does not properly handle carry propagation and produces incorrect output in its implementation of the P-384 NIST elliptic curve, which allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / nettle

Package

Name: nettle
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/nettle@2.7.1-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.7.1-1ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.7.1-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libhogweed2",
            "binary_version": "2.7.1-1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnettle4",
            "binary_version": "2.7.1-1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "nettle-bin",
            "binary_version": "2.7.1-1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "nettle-dev",
            "binary_version": "2.7.1-1ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8804.json"