CVE-2025-9341
Garbage collection can delay for AES CBC Native support, resulting in heap exhaustion
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Description
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS bc-fips on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java LTS bcprov-lts8on on All (API modules) allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files org/bouncycastle/crypto/fips/AESNativeCBC.Java, org/bouncycastle/crypto/engines/AESNativeCBC.Java. This issue affects Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS: from BC-FJA 2.1.0 through 2.1.0; Bouncy Castle for Java LTS: from BC-LTS 2.73.0 through 2.73.7.
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