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CVE-2026-8149
Bouncy Castle LTS native GCM chunking can cause bad-tag exception on decryption
Impact
A vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-LTS bcprov-lts8on on X86_64, AVX, AVX-512f, Linux, Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA bc-fips on Linux, X86_64, AVX, AVX-512f. This vulnerability is associated with program files gcm128w, gcm512w, gcm128w.C, gcm512w.C. This issue affects BC-LTS: from 2.73.0 before 2.73.11; BC-FJA: from 2.1.0 before 2.1.3.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| maven | org.bouncycastle:bcprov-lts8on | >= 2.73.0, <= 2.73.10 | 2.73.11 |