Advisories » MGASA-2025-0295

Updated botan2 packages fix security vulnerabilitiy

Publication date: 15 Nov 2025
Modification date: 15 Nov 2025
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 9
CVE: CVE-2024-50383

Description

Botan before 3.6.0, when certain GCC versions are used, has a
compiler-induced secret-dependent operation in lib/utils/donna128.h in
donna128 (used in Chacha-Poly1305 and x25519). An addition can be
skipped if a carry is not set. This was observed for GCC 11.3.0 with -O2
on MIPS, and GCC on x86-i386 (only 32-bit processors can be affected).
(CVE-2024-50383)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34391
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7586-1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-50383

SRPMS

9/core

• botan2-2.19.5-1.1.mga9