Advisories » MGASA-2021-0329

Updated botan2 packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 10 Jul 2021
Modification date: 10 Jul 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2021-24115

Description

Updated botan2 packages fix security vulnerability:

In Botan before 2.17.3, constant-time computations are not used for
certain decoding and encoding operations (base32, base58, base64, and
hex) (CVE-2021-24115).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29057
• https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/66VDUR6MFH345POI2NK4EL4N3NCJVT5O/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-24115

SRPMS

7/core

• botan2-2.9.0-2.2.mga7