Package: bouncycastle Version: 1.80-3 Severity: important Tags: security upstream User: [email protected] Usertags: CVE-2026-5598
Dear Maintainer, The following vulnerability was published for bouncycastle. CVE-2026-5598[1]: | Covert timing channel vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. | BC-JAVA core on all (core modules). Non-constant time comparisons risk | private key leakage in FrodoKEM. Upstream lists BC 1.71 through 1.83 as affected and BC 1.84 as fixed[2]. The current Debian package in stable/testing/unstable is 1.80-3, which is within that affected range. The upstream fix appears to be: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/94abbd56413dfdac651fd878bc60253871ef5e87 [1] https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-5598 [2] https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%905598 Regards, James
