Input validation error in Botan and Debian Linux - CVE-2015-5726

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Input validation error in Botan and Debian Linux - CVE-2015-5726

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU40303
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5726
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Randombit
Debian
Affected software:
Botan
Debian Linux

Detailed vulnerability description

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.


How to mitigate CVE-2015-5726

Install update from vendor's website.

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