CVE-2016-2850

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    CVE-2016-2850

    Published: 13 May 2016Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Botan 1.11.x before 1.11.29 does not enforce TLS policy for (1) signature algorithms and (2) ECC curves, which allows remote attackers to conduct downgrade attacks via unspecified vectors.

    References: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183669.html, http://botan.randombit.net/security.html, http://marc.info/?l=botan-devel&m=145852488622892&w=2, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-23

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- ee912cd748a9b0bf56c84a49896dd2d57e0f81a6
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.11.0
    1.11.1
    1.11.10
    1.11.11
    1.11.12
    1.11.13
    1.11.14
    1.11.15
    1.11.16
    1.11.17
    1.11.18
    1.11.19
    1.11.2
    1.11.20
    1.11.21
    1.11.22
    1.11.23
    1.11.24
    1.11.25
    1.11.26
    1.11.27
    1.11.28
    1.11.3
    1.11.4
    1.11.5
    1.11.6
    1.11.7
    1.11.8
    1.11.9

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High