UBUNTU-CVE-2026-118769

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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-118769

Summary:

Details: Botan is a C++ cryptography library. From 2.1.0 until 3.13.0, the Botan C API function botan_block_cipher_block_size converted a size_t block size to int without a bounds check. In an application that accepts external algorithm parameter strings and uses the FFI raw ECB mode, an attacker can select the variable-block-size Lion cipher so that the reported size is truncated, the caller allocates insufficient memory, and later block processing causes memory corruption. The C++ API and normally used C API modes such as CBC and CTR are unaffected. This issue is fixed in version 3.13.0.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-118769, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-118769, https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/c6089ab7fab616517d56c447c93e13a5c57a0af3, https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/5805, https://github.com/randombit/botan/security/advisories/GHSA-c68p-822g-jfvr