SB2016051315 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Randombit Botan 

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SB2016051315 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Randombit Botan

Published: May 13, 2016 Updated: August 9, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2016051315
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5727)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The BER decoder in Botan 1.10.x before 1.10.10 and 1.11.x before 1.11.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors, related to a length field.


2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5726)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References