CVE-2016-2196

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2196
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2196.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2196
Downstream
Published
2016-05-13T14:59:09Z
Modified
2025-07-29T07:08:59.071891Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Heap-based buffer overflow in the P-521 reduction function in Botan 1.11.x before 1.11.27 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and crash) or execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/randombit/botan

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/randombit/botan
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Affected versions

1.*

1.10.0
1.10.0-rc1
1.10.1
1.11.0
1.11.1
1.11.10
1.11.11
1.11.12
1.11.13
1.11.14
1.11.15
1.11.16
1.11.2
1.11.3
1.11.4
1.11.5
1.11.6
1.11.7
1.11.8
1.11.9
1.5.10
1.5.11
1.5.12
1.5.13
1.5.6
1.5.7
1.5.8
1.5.9
1.6.0
1.6.1
1.6.2
1.6.3
1.7.0
1.7.1
1.7.10
1.7.11
1.7.12
1.7.13
1.7.14
1.7.15
1.7.16
1.7.17
1.7.18
1.7.19
1.7.2
1.7.20
1.7.21
1.7.22
1.7.23
1.7.24
1.7.3
1.7.4
1.7.5
1.7.6
1.7.7
1.7.8
1.7.9
1.8.0
1.8.1
1.8.2
1.8.3
1.8.4
1.8.5
1.8.6
1.8.7
1.8.8
1.9.0
1.9.1
1.9.10
1.9.11
1.9.12
1.9.13
1.9.14
1.9.15
1.9.16
1.9.17
1.9.18
1.9.2
1.9.3
1.9.4
1.9.5
1.9.6
1.9.7
1.9.8
1.9.9