FKIE_CVE-2015-8804
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-02-23 19:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:35
Severity
Summary
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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nettle_project | nettle | * | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 15.10 | |
| opensuse | leap | 42.1 | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 13.1 | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 13.2 |
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