vulnerability
Debian: CVE-2024-50382: botan -- security update
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N) | Oct 23, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | Mar 30, 2026 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 23, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026
Description
Botan before 3.6.0, when certain LLVM versions are used, has compiler-induced secret-dependent control flow in lib/utils/ghash/ghash.cpp in GHASH in AES-GCM. There is a branch instead of an XOR with carry. This was observed for Clang in LLVM 15 on RISC-V.
Solution
debian-upgrade-botan
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