PT-2016-3699 · Botan+2 · Botan+2

Published 2016-03-07 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-5727

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Botan versions 1.10.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, specifically memory consumption, via unspecified vectors. This is related to a length field in the BER decoder.

Recommendations For Botan versions 1.10.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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-1589

CVE-2015-5727

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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5727 · Security Note
• 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
• 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
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5727 · Security Note