Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Nettle vulnerabilities (USN-2897-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2897-1 advisory. Hanno Bck discovered that Nettle incorrectly handled carry propagation in the NIST P-256 elliptic curve. CVE-2015-8803 Hanno Bck discovered that Nettle...

MGASA-2016-0061 Updated nettle packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated nettle2.7 and nettle packages fix security vulnerabilities: Two carry propagation bugs in elliptic curve scalar multiplications that affect the NIST P-256 curve. The bugs are in the C code and affect multiple architectures CVE-2015-8803, CVE-2015-8805. A carry propagation bug in elliptic...

Updated nettle packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated nettle2.7 and nettle packages fix security vulnerabilities: Two carry propagation bugs in elliptic curve scalar multiplications that affect the NIST P-256 curve. The bugs are in the C code and affect multiple architectures CVE-2015-8803, CVE-2015-8805. A carry propagation bug in elliptic...

nettle: improper cryptographic calculations

CVE-2015-8803 CVE-2015-8804 CVE-2015-8805 improper cryptographic calculations It has been discovered that multiple carry propagation bugs are producing wrong results in calculations. They affect the NIST P-256 and P-384 curves. The P-256 bug is in the C code and affects multiple architectures...