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CVE-2016-2195

CVE-2016-2195 PUBLISHED

Integer overflow in the PointGFp constructor in Botan before 1.10.11 and 1.11.x before 1.11.27 allows remote attackers to overwrite memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ECC point, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. The bigint_mul and bigint_sqr functions received the size of the output buffer, but only used it to dispatch to a faster algorithm in cases where there was sufficient output space to call an unrolled multiplication function. The result is a heap overflow accessible via ECC point decoding, which accepted untrusted inputs. This is likely exploitable for remote code execution.

EPSS 10.57% · 93.4th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
10.57%
93.4th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSbotan1.101.10.5-1, 1.10.5-1ubuntu1, 0

Timeline

  • May 13, 2016 CVE Published
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
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