Security
Security
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Botan, the worst of which might allow remote attackers to obtain ECDSA secret keys.
| Package | dev-libs/botan on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | < 1.10.13 |
| Unaffected versions | >= 1.10.13 |
Botan (Japanese for peony) is a cryptography library written in C++11.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Botan. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
A remote attacker might obtain ECDSA secret keys via a timing side-channel attack or could possibly bypass TLS policy.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Botan users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/botan-1.10.13"
Release date
January 11, 2017
Latest revision
January 11, 2017: 1
Severity
normal
Exploitable
remote
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