[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#963149: node-elliptic: CVE-2020-13822

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: node-elliptic
Version: 6.5.1~dfsg-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/issues/226

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for node-elliptic.

CVE-2020-13822[0]:
| The Elliptic package 6.5.2 for Node.js allows ECDSA signature
| malleability via variations in encoding, leading '\0' bytes, or
| integer overflows. This could conceivably have a security-relevant
| impact if an application relied on a single canonical signature.


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-2020-13822
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13822
[1] https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/issues/226

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore