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CVE-2016-2195

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.7% 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-119

Description

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.

Affected products

• randombit botan: through 1.10.10; 1.11.0, 1.11.1, 1.11.2, 1.11.3, 1.11.4, 1.11.5 (+21)
• Debian Linux: 8.0

References

• http://botan.randombit.net/security.html
• http://marc.info/?l=botan-devel&m=145435148602911&w=2
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3565
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-38
• http://botan.randombit.net/security.html
• http://marc.info/?l=botan-devel&m=145435148602911&w=2
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3565
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-38

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