CVE-2015-5726
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
7.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| botan_project | botan | 1.10.0 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.10.1 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.10.2 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.10.3 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.10.4 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.10.5 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.10.6 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.10.7 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.10.8 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.10.9 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.0 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.1 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.2 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.3 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.4 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.5 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.6 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.7 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.8 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.9 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.10 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.11 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.12 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.13 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.14 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.15 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.16 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.17 | |
| botan_project | botan | 1.11.18 | |
References
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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