Improper Carry Propagation in P-384 NIST Elliptic Curve Implementation in Nettle

Improper Carry Propagation in P-384 NIST Elliptic Curve Implementation in Nettle

CVE-2015-8804 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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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