CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-2196

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2016-05-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-05-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the P-521 reduction function in Botan 1.11.x before 1.11.27 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and crash) or execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Affected configurations

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

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References