MGASA-2017-0327

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    MGASA-2017-0327

    Published: 3 Sept 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-2801

    Summary: Updated botan packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that an error in the x509 parser of the Botan crypto library could result in an out-of-bounds memory read, resulting in denial of service or an information leak if processing a malformed certificate (CVE-2017-2801).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0327.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21528, https://botan.randombit.net/security.html, https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3939

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: botan

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/botan?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.10.14-5.1.mga6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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