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Change History

GitHub, Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

GitHub, Inc. CWE-405

GitHub, Inc. CWE-770

Botan is a C++ cryptography library. X.509 certificates can identify elliptic curves using either an object identifier or using explicit encoding of the parameters. Prior to versions 3.3.0 and 2.19.4, an attacker could present an ECDSA X.509 certificate using explicit encoding where the parameters are very large. The proof of concept used a 16Kbit prime for this purpose. When parsing, the parameter is checked to be prime, causing excessive computation. This was patched in 2.19.4 and 3.3.0 to all

GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/08c404b23740babee1f6aa51b54e966029aadee4 [No types assigned]

GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/94e9154c143aa5264da6254a6a1be5bc66ee2b5a [No types assigned]

GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/randombit/botan/security/advisories/GHSA-w4g2-7m2h-7xj7 [No types assigned]