CVE-2015-5726

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-05-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The BER decoder in Botan 0.10.x before 1.10.10 and 1.11.x before 1.11.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an empty BIT STRING in ASN.1 data.

Affected products

randombit botan: 1.10.0, 1.10.1, 1.10.2, 1.10.3, 1.10.4, 1.10.5 (+23)
Debian Linux: 8.0

References

http://botan.randombit.net/security.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3565
http://botan.randombit.net/security.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3565

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