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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : Botan vulnerabilities (USN-7586-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240496

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7586-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Botan could have compiler dependent operations induced under certain circumstances.
 An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause undefined behavior. (CVE-2024-50382, CVE-2024-50383)

 Bing Shi discovered that Botan did not limit the size of certain inputs when checking primality and name constraints. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-34702, CVE-2024-34703)

 It was discovered that Botan did not correctly handle conflicting name constraints. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication. (CVE-2024-39312)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7586-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 240496

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7586-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/25/2025

Updated: 6/25/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-39312

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:botan, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbotan-2-19, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-botan, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbotan-2-dev

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-34702, CVE-2024-34703, CVE-2024-39312, CVE-2024-50382, CVE-2024-50383

USN: 7586-1