Garbage collection can delay for AES CBC Native support, resulting in heap exhaustion

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    "title": "Garbage collection can delay for AES CBC Native support, resulting in heap exhaustion",
    "summary": "Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS bc-fips on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java LTS bcprov-lts8on on All (API modules) allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files org/bouncycastle/crypto/fips/AESNativeCBC.Java, org/bouncycastle/crypto/engines/AESNativeCBC.Java. This issue affects Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS: 2.1.0; Bouncy Castle for Java LTS: from 2.73.0 through 2.73.7.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:48.960869636Z",
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  "document_id": 516969,
  "published_at": "2025-08-22T09:09:17.111+00:00"
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