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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-9860: Off-by-one Error

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-9860: Off-by-one Error

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/12/2018
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/22/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in Botan 1.11.32 through 2.x before 2.6.0. An off-by-one error when processing malformed TLS-CBC ciphertext could cause the receiving side to include in the HMAC computation exactly 64K bytes of data following the record buffer, aka an over-read. The MAC comparison will subsequently fail and the connection will be closed. This could be used for denial of service. No information leak occurs.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-botan

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