CVE-2023-33202 Information

Description

Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.73 contains a potential Denial of Service (DoS) issue within the Bouncy Castle org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMParser class. This class parses OpenSSL PEM encoded streams containing X.509 certificates PKCS8 encoded keys and PKCS7 objects. Parsing a file that has crafted ASN.1 data through the PEMParser causes an OutOfMemoryError which can enable a denial of service attack.

Reference

https://bouncycastle.org https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2023-33202