PT-2017-9042 · Botan+1 · Botan+1

Published 2017-04-10 · Updated 2018-09-10 · CVE-2016-6878

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Botan versions prior to 1.11.31

Description The Curve25519 code in Botan might allow attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors related to undefined behavior, particularly on systems without a native 128-bit integer type, such as 32-bit ARM systems compiled by Clang.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.11.31, update to version 1.11.31 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2298

CVE-2016-6878

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
• 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6878 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6878 · Security Note
• https://botan.randombit.net/security.html#id2 · Note
• https://packages.altlinux.org/ru/vuln/CVE-2016-6878 · Note