CVE-2024-50382 Affecting botan package, versions <2.19.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.1
Threat Intelligence
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- published14 Jun 2025
- disclosed23 Oct 2024
Introduced: 23 Oct 2024
CVE-2024-50382 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:24.10 botan to version 2.19.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.1 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 Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:24.10 relevant fixed versions and status.
Botan before 3.6.0, when certain LLVM versions are used, has compiler-induced secret-dependent control flow in lib/utils/ghash/ghash.cpp in GHASH in AES-GCM. There is a branch instead of an XOR with carry. This was observed for Clang in LLVM 15 on RISC-V.