VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8804

critical
Published 2016-02-23 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.1 Affected —
13.2 Affected —
13.1 Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
15.10 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.2-1
sid Fixed 3.2-1
forky Fixed 3.2-1
bullseye Fixed 3.2-1
bookworm Fixed 3.2-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
nettle_projectnettle{"endIncluding":"3.1.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-254 CWE-310

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.