ubuntu · CVE-2015-8804

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Priority: medium Published: 2015-12-31 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:49:21 UTC

View at Official ubuntu advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2015-8804 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (nettle), 8 status rows across 8 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 4, released 3, ignored 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.

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