Bug#900843: bouncycastle: CVE-2018-1000180

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: bouncycastle
Version: 1.54-1
Severity: grave
Tags: patch security upstream
Justification: user security hole
Forwarded: https://www.bouncycastle.org/jira/browse/BJA-694

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for bouncycastle.

CVE-2018-1000180[0]:
| Bouncy Castle BC 1.54 - 1.59, BC-FJA 1.0.0, BC-FJA 1.0.1 and earlier
| have a flaw in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator,
| specifically RSA Key Pairs generated in low-level API with added
| certainty may have less M-R tests than expected. This appears to be
| fixed in versions BC 1.60 beta 4 and later, BC-FJA 1.0.2 and later.

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-2018-1000180
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000180
[1] https://www.bouncycastle.org/jira/browse/BJA-694

Regards,
Salvatore