CVE-2015-8804

CRITICAL

Nettle < 3.2 - Incorrect Elliptic Curve Output in P-384 Implementation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (11)

Core 11
Core References
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00100.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00093.html
Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.lysator.liu.se/pipermail/nettle-bugs/2015/003024.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2897-1
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00091.html
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/02/2
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2582.html
Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-01/msg00006.html
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/03/1

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.1187
EPSS Percentile 93.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-254 CWE-310
Status published
Products (6)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 15.10
nettle_project/nettle < 3.1.1
opensuse/leap 42.1
opensuse/opensuse 13.1
opensuse/opensuse 13.2
Published Feb 23, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026