CVE-2015-8804

9.8 CRITICAL

Published: February 23, 2016 Modified: May 06, 2026

Description

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00091.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00093.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00100.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2582.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/02/2

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/03/1

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2897-1

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/38-Miscomputations-of-elliptic-curve-scalar-multiplications-in-Nettle.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/commit/fa269b6ad06dd13c901dbd84a12e52b918a09cd7

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-01/msg00006.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.lysator.liu.se/pipermail/nettle-bugs/2015/003024.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00091.html