Denial of Service in Crypto++ (cryptopp) via DER Public-Key Data for F(2^m) Curve

Denial of Service in Crypto++ (cryptopp) via DER Public-Key Data for F(2^m) Curve

CVE-2023-50980 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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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