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. (For users of the FIPS Java API: BC-FJA 1.0.2.3 and earlier are affected; BC-FJA 1.0.2.4 is fixed.)
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2023-11-23T00:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2025-08-18T16:22:17.654Z
Reserved: 2023-05-18T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2023-33202

Updated: 2024-08-02T15:39:35.778Z

Status : Modified
Published: 2023-11-23T16:15:07.273
Modified: 2025-08-18T17:15:27.680
Link: CVE-2023-33202
