Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package botan1.10  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1610-BOTAN110-625478
  • published13 May 2016
  • disclosed13 May 2016

Introduced: 13 May 2016

CVE-2015-5726  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream botan1.10 package and not the botan1.10 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.