CVE-2016-2196

critical

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the P-521 reduction function in Botan 1.11.x before 1.11.27 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and crash) or execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

References

http://marc.info/?l=botan-devel&m=145435148602911&w=2

http://botan.randombit.net/security.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-05-13

Updated: 2016-05-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H