Description
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.
Published: 2016-05-13
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-449-1 botan1.10 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3565-1 botan1.10 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-5672 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.
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Botan Project Botan
Debian Debian Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:59:04.293Z

Reserved: 2015-08-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-5726

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-05-13T14:59:01.070

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-5726

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