Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting postquantum-feldman-vss package, versions [,0.8.0b2)
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- published2 Apr 2025
- disclosed14 Mar 2025
- creditDavid Osipov
Introduced: 14 Mar 2025
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-770 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade PostQuantum-Feldman-VSS to version 0.8.0b2 or higher.
Overview
PostQuantum-Feldman-VSS is a Post-Quantum Secure Feldman's Verifiable Secret Sharing (VSS) in Python
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling when performing arbitrary-precision calculations based on the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP), in functions such as exp(), secure_exp(), efficient_multi_exp(), _secure_matrix_solve(), and _evaluate_polynomial(), which can be made to allocate excessive memory and exhaust all memory available, causing a crash.