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Fedora 24 : botan (2016-7de64a450f)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 96110

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

### Botan 1.10.14 ###

 - NOTE WELL: Botan 1.10.x is supported for security patches only until 2017-12-31

 - Fix integer overflow during BER decoding, found by Falko Strenzke. This bug is not thought to be directly exploitable but upgrading ASAP is advised.
 (CVE-2016-9132)

 - Fix two cases where (in error situations) an exception would be thrown from a destructor, causing a call to std::terminate.

 - When RC4 is disabled in the build, also prevent it from being included in the OpenSSL provider. (GH #638)

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Solution

Update the affected botan package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-7de64a450f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 96110

File Name: fedora_2016-7de64a450f.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/27/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:botan, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 12/22/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/30/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9132