Vulnerability CVE-2023-50980


Published: 2023-12-18

Description:
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.

 References:
https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/1248

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