CVE-2015-5726

HIGH

Botan 0.10.x-1.10.9 and 1.11.x-1.11.18 - Denial of Service via Empty BIT STRING in ASN.1 BER Decoder

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The BER decoder in Botan 0.10.x before 1.10.10 and 1.11.x before 1.11.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an empty BIT STRING in ASN.1 data.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3565
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://botan.randombit.net/security.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0135
EPSS Percentile 68.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (30)
botan_project/botan 1.10.0
botan_project/botan 1.10.1
botan_project/botan 1.10.2
botan_project/botan 1.10.3
botan_project/botan 1.10.4
botan_project/botan 1.10.5
botan_project/botan 1.10.6
botan_project/botan 1.10.7
botan_project/botan 1.10.8
botan_project/botan 1.10.9
... and 20 more
Published May 13, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026