cve/2023/CVE-2023-50980.md

### [CVE-2023-50980](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-50980)
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### Description

gf2n.cpp in Crypto++ (aka cryptopp) through 8.9.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via DER public-key data for an F(2^m) curve, if the degree of each term in the polynomial is not strictly decreasing.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/1248

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.