PQClean has a correctness error in HQC decapsulation

Impact A correctness error has been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism. Due to an indexing error, part of the secret key is incorrectly treated as non-secret data. This results in an incorrect shared secret value being returned when the decapsulation...

GHSA-753P-WRJ5-G8FJ PQClean has a correctness error in HQC decapsulation

Impact A correctness error has been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism. Due to an indexing error, part of the secret key is incorrectly treated as non-secret data. This results in an incorrect shared secret value being returned when the decapsulation...

PT-2024-40144 · Pqclean · Pqclean

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: PQClean affected versions not specified Description: A correctness error has been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism, where an indexing error causes part of the secret key to be incorrectly treat...

CVE-2024-54137 liboqs has a correctness error in HQC decapsulation

liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. A correctness error has been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism. Due to an indexing error, part of the secret key is incorrectly treat...