PT-2019-4597 · Bouncy Castle · Bouncy Castle Crypto

Published 2019-10-08 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2019-17359

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Bouncy Castle Crypto versions 1.63

Description The issue is related to the ASN.1 parser, which can trigger a large attempted memory allocation, resulting in an OutOfMemoryError, via crafted ASN.1 data. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

Recommendations For Bouncy Castle Crypto version 1.63, update to version 1.64 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-770

Related Identifiers

BDU:2020-00689

CVE-2019-17359

GHSA-2MH8-GX2M-MR75

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10661-1

Affected Products

Bouncy Castle Crypto

References · 47

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17359 · Security Note
• https://oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-17359 · Vendor Advisory
• https://oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html · Patch
• https://bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html · Patch
• https://bouncycastle.org/releasenotes.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10661-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html · Patch
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-00689 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-2mh8-gx2m-mr75 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17359 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13098 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1000344 · Note