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HistoryJan 11, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

Botan: Multiple vulnerabilities

2017-01-1100:00:00
Gentoo Foundation
security.gentoo.org
35

CVSS2

5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

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

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS

0.006

Percentile

79.2%

Background

Botan (Japanese for peony) is a cryptography library written in C++11.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Botan. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker might obtain ECDSA secret keys via a timing side-channel attack or could possibly bypass TLS policy.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Botan users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/botan-1.10.13"
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyalldev-libs/botan< 1.10.13UNKNOWN

CVSS2

5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

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

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS

0.006

Percentile

79.2%