PT-2017-7277 · Botan+1 · Botan+1

Andrej Nemec · Published 2017-04-10 · Updated 2018-09-10 · CVE-2015-7825

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 prior to 1.11.22

Description The issue is related to improper validation of certificate paths, which can lead to a denial of service due to an infinite loop and memory consumption. This can be triggered by a certificate with a loop in the certificate chain.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.11.22, update to version 1.11.22 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2298

CVE-2015-7825

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Botan

References · 9

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7826 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2018-2298 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7825 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7825 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6878 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7824 · Security Note
• https://botan.randombit.net/security.html#id3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://packages.altlinux.org/ru/vuln/CVE-2015-7825 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311618 · Note