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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-2850: Botan: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 13, 2016
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

Botan 1.11.x before 1.11.29 does not enforce TLS policy for (1) signature algorithms and (2) ECC curves, which allows remote attackers to conduct downgrade attacks via unspecified vectors.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-botan
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