vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-2801): botan1.10 vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 24, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 2025

Description

It was discovered that Botan did not properly manage x509 DN strings comparisons when provided with a specially crafted X509 certificate. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause out of bound reads, resulting in information leakage, denial of service, or potentially incorrect certificate validation results.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-botan1-10
Title
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