CVE-2015-5727

Publication date 13 May 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

The BER decoder in Botan 1.10.x before 1.10.10 and 1.11.x before 1.11.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors, related to a length field.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
botan1.10	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.10.5-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Notes

seth-arnold

“Fixed in 1.11.19 and 1.10.10, affected all previous versions 1.10 and 1.11”

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H