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CVE-2015-5726

Published: 13 May 2016

The BER decoder in Botan 0.10.x before 1.10.10 and 1.11.x before 1.11.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an empty BIT STRING in ASN.1 data.

Notes

AuthorNote
seth-arnold
"Fixed in 1.11.19 and 1.10.10, affected all previous versions
of 1.10 and 1.11"

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
botan1.10
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty
Released (1.10.5-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1)
upstream
Released (1.10.10-1)
wily Not vulnerable
(1.10.10-6)
xenial Not vulnerable

yakkety Not vulnerable

zesty Not vulnerable

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H