PT-2016-3698 · Botan+2 · Botan+2

Published 2016-03-07 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-5726

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Botan versions 0.10.x through 1.10.9 Botan versions 1.11.x through 1.11.18

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash. This can be achieved by sending an empty BIT STRING in ASN.1 data to the BER decoder.

Recommendations For Botan versions 0.10.x through 1.10.9, update to version 1.10.10 or later. For Botan versions 1.11.x through 1.11.18, update to version 1.11.19 or later.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-1589

CVE-2015-5726

DLA-449-1

DSA-3565-1

DSA-3565-2

MGASA-2016-0102

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10477-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1222-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Botan

Suse

References · 46

• http://botan.randombit.net/security.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14737 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3565-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2018-1589 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5726 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7827 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/botan1.10 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2194 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2195 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5727 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1222-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5726 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5726 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3565-2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3565 · Vendor Advisory