vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2021-40529: botan -- security update

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 6, 2021
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The ElGamal implementation in Botan through 2.18.1, as used in Thunderbird and other products, allows plaintext recovery because, during interaction between two cryptographic libraries, a certain dangerous combination of the prime defined by the receiver's public key, the generator defined by the receiver's public key, and the sender's ephemeral exponents can lead to a cross-configuration attack against OpenPGP.

Solution

debian-upgrade-botan
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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