MGASA-2017-0422

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    MGASA-2017-0422

    Published: 20 Nov 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-14737

    Summary: Updated botan packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: In the Montgomery exponentiation code, a table of precomputed values is used. An attacker able to analyze which cache lines were accessed (perhaps via an active attack such as Prime+Probe) could recover information about the exponent (CVE-2017-14737).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0422.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21938, https://botan.randombit.net/security.html, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/RPHA5S6ZQM46XJ2CGDEETO6U6I6M5NEG/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: botan

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/botan?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.10.17-1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
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    Availability
    None
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