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CVE-2024-34702 Affecting botan package, versions <2.19.5-r0

Severity

 Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE317-BOTAN-8171945
  • published 9 Oct 2024
  • disclosed 8 Jul 2024
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Introduced: 8 Jul 2024

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How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.17 botan to version 2.19.5-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream botan package and not the botan package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.17 relevant fixed versions and status.

Botan is a C++ cryptography library. X.509 certificates can identify elliptic curves using either an object identifier or using explicit encoding of the parameters. Prior to 3.5.0 and 2.19.5, checking name constraints in X.509 certificates is quadratic in the number of names and name constraints. An attacker who presented a certificate chain which contained a very large number of names in the SubjectAlternativeName, signed by a CA certificate which contained a large number of name constraints, could cause a denial of service. The problem has been addressed in Botan 3.5.0 and a partial backport has also been applied and is included in Botan 2.19.5.

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