ubuntu-cve-2018-9860
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2018-04-12 05:29
Modified
2026-04-22 07:38
Summary
Details

An issue was discovered in Botan 1.11.32 through 2.x before 2.6.0. An off-by-one error when processing malformed TLS-CBC ciphertext could cause the receiving side to include in the HMAC computation exactly 64K bytes of data following the record buffer, aka an over-read. The MAC comparison will subsequently fail and the connection will be closed. This could be used for denial of service. No information leak occurs.

Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libbotan-1.10-0",
            "binary_version": "1.10.5-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "botan1.10",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/botan1.10@1.10.5-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1?arch=source\u0026distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
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            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.10.5-1",
        "1.10.5-1ubuntu1",
        "1.10.5-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1",
        "1.10.5-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "botan",
            "binary_version": "2.4.0-5ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libbotan-2-4",
            "binary_version": "2.4.0-5ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python3-botan",
            "binary_version": "2.4.0-5ubuntu1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "botan",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/botan@2.4.0-5ubuntu1?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
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            {
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            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2.4.0-3",
        "2.4.0-4",
        "2.4.0-5ubuntu1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "An issue was discovered in Botan 1.11.32 through 2.x before 2.6.0. An off-by-one error when processing malformed TLS-CBC ciphertext could cause the receiving side to include in the HMAC computation exactly 64K bytes of data following the record buffer, aka an over-read. The MAC comparison will subsequently fail and the connection will be closed. This could be used for denial of service. No information leak occurs.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2018-9860",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:38:36Z",
  "published": "2018-04-12T05:29:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-9860"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/ec222c99719c396a1f4756b2ca345dbbfbeb5ed5"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-9860"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2018-9860"
  ]
}



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