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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28052

An issue was discovered in Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC Java 1.65 and 1.66. The OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility method compared incorrect data w...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

An issue was discovered in Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC Java 1.65 and 1.66. The OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility method compared incorrect data when checking the password, allowing incorrect passwords to indicate they were matching with previously hashed ones that were different.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 bouncycastle

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.65-2"}]}]

Debian:13 bouncycastle

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.65-2"}]}]

Debian:14 bouncycastle

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.65-2"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org