CVE-2016-2194

high
Published 2016-05-13 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The ressol function in Botan before 1.10.11 and 1.11.x before 1.11.27 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via unspecified input to the OS2ECP function, related to a composite modulus.

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

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debian8.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
botan_projectbotan{"endIncluding":"1.10.10"}
botan_projectbotan1.11.0
botan_projectbotan1.11.1
botan_projectbotan1.11.2
botan_projectbotan1.11.3
botan_projectbotan1.11.4
botan_projectbotan1.11.5
botan_projectbotan1.11.6
botan_projectbotan1.11.7
botan_projectbotan1.11.8
botan_projectbotan1.11.9
botan_projectbotan1.11.10
botan_projectbotan1.11.11
botan_projectbotan1.11.12
botan_projectbotan1.11.13
botan_projectbotan1.11.14
botan_projectbotan1.11.15
botan_projectbotan1.11.16
botan_projectbotan1.11.17
botan_projectbotan1.11.18
botan_projectbotan1.11.19
botan_projectbotan1.11.20
botan_projectbotan1.11.21
botan_projectbotan1.11.22
botan_projectbotan1.11.23
botan_projectbotan1.11.24
botan_projectbotan1.11.25
botan_projectbotan1.11.26

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.