Vulnerability CVE-2022-48570


Published: 2023-08-22

Description:
Crypto++ through 8.4 contains a timing side channel in ECDSA signature generation. Function FixedSizeAllocatorWithCleanup could write to memory outside of the allocation if the allocated memory was not 16-byte aligned. NOTE: this issue exists because the CVE-2019-14318 fix was intentionally removed for functionality reasons.

 References:
https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/releases/tag/CRYPTOPP_8_4_0
https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/992

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