debian · CVE-2023-50980

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:17:19 GMT

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CVE-2023-50980 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (libcrypto++), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2.

Description:

gf2n.cpp in Crypto++ (aka cryptopp) through 8.9.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via DER public-key data for an F(2^m) curve, if the degree of each term in the polynomial is not strictly decreasing.

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