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CVE-2016-9132

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

In Botan 1.8.0 through 1.11.33, when decoding BER data an integer overflow could occur, which would cause an incorrect length field to be computed. Some API callers may use the returned (incorrect and attacker controlled) length field in a way which later causes memory corruption or other failure.

Affected products

• randombit botan: 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5 (+78)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95879
• https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/987ad747db6d0d7e36f840398f3cf02e2fbfd90f
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4OUDGVRQYQUL7F5MRP3LAV7EHRJG4BBE/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z2Y3JLMTE3VIV4X5X6SXVZTJBDDLCS3D/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95879
• https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/987ad747db6d0d7e36f840398f3cf02e2fbfd90f
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4OUDGVRQYQUL7F5MRP3LAV7EHRJG4BBE/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z2Y3JLMTE3VIV4X5X6SXVZTJBDDLCS3D/

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