This update for bouncycastle fixes the following issues:
CVE-2026-17507: negative signed leaf_index values from unsigned wire encodings can cause heap exhaustion
(bsc#1284075).
CVE-2026-17508: unbounded KDF iteration and memory parameters can cause resource exhaustion (bsc#1284073).
CVE-2026-18036: variable-time modulo and division operations in NTRU implementation can allow timing side-channel
attacks (bsc#1284065).
CVE-2026-18040: table lookups and variable-time duplicate scanning in HQC can cause cache side-channel leaks
(bsc#1284205).
CVE-2026-71885: unbound X.509 certificates in MLS LeafNode verification can cause identity impersonation and group
message interception (bsc#1284165).
CVE-2026-71886: unvalidated CERTIFY_OTHER flags in OpenPGP subkeys can cause unauthorized trust delegations and
identity spoofing (bsc#1284212).
CVE-2026-71887: missing primary key back-signature validation on subkeys can cause signature misattribution and trust
context spoofing (bsc#1284213).
CVE-2026-71888: disagreement between digestAlgorithm and authAttrs in CMS parsing can cause unauthenticated attribute
injection (bsc#1284215).
CVE-2026-71889: skipped leaf certificate evaluation in checkNameConstraints can cause X.509 name constraint bypasses
(bsc#1284218).
CVE-2026-71890: unbounded Remove proposals in external MLS commits can cause arbitrary group member eviction and
session takeover (bsc#1284219).
CVE-2026-71891: forged ECPoint curves in BLS12-381 key validation can cause aggregate signature verification bypasses
(bsc#1284220).
CVE-2026-71892: type mismatch in CMS key-transport validation can cause key-size enforcement bypasses for HKDF-derived
content keys (bsc#1284221).
CVE-2026-85515: laundered EOF exceptions in OpenPGP message stream processing can cause unregistered truncation errors
and integrity check bypasses (bsc#1284222).
CVE-2026-97873: unbounded iteration counts in legacy PBES1 and PKCS#12 PBE implementations can cause resource
exhaustion (bsc#1284224).