Source: liboqs Version: 0.8.0-1 Severity: grave Tags: security upstream Justification: user security hole X-Debbugs-Cc: car...@debian.org, Debian Security Team <t...@security.debian.org>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for liboqs. CVE-2024-54137[0]: | liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides | implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. A | correctness error has been identified in the reference | implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism. Due to an | indexing error, part of the secret key is incorrectly treated as | non-secret data. This results in an incorrect shared secret value | being returned when the decapsulation function is called with a | malformed ciphertext. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.12.0. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-54137 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-54137 [1] https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/security/advisories/GHSA-gpf4-vrrw-r8v7 [2] https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/commit/cce1bfde4e52c524b087b9687020d283fbde0f24 Regards, Salvatore
