Advisories » MGASA-2017-0327

Updated botan packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 03 Sep 2017
Modification date: 03 Sep 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-2801

Description

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that an error in the x509 parser of the
Botan crypto library could result in an out-of-bounds memory read,
resulting in denial of service or an information leak if processing a
malformed certificate (CVE-2017-2801).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21528
• https://botan.randombit.net/security.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3939
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2801

SRPMS

6/core

• botan-1.10.14-5.1.mga6