In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider versions 1.51 to 1.55, a carry propagation bug was introduced in the implementation of squaring for several raw math classes have been fixed (org.bouncycastle.math.raw.Nat???). These classes are used by our custom elliptic curve implementations (org.bouncycastle.math.ec.custom.**), so there was the possibility of rare (in general usage) spurious calculations for elliptic curve scalar multiplications. Such errors would have been detected with high probability by the output validation for our scalar multipliers.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-0679 The Bouncy Castle JCE Provider carry a propagation bug
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-r97x-3g8f-gx3m The Bouncy Castle JCE Provider carry a propagation bug
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Mon, 12 May 2025 18:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Bouncycastle bc-java
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:legion-of-the-bouncy-castle-java-crytography-api:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-java:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Bouncycastle legion-of-the-bouncy-castle-java-crytography-api
Bouncycastle bc-java

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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T03:55:27.500Z

Reserved: 2018-06-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-1000340

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-04T13:29:00.293

Modified: 2025-05-12T17:37:16.527

Link: CVE-2016-1000340

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Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2018-06-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-1000340 - Bugzilla

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