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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201612-38">
<title>Botan: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
<synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Botan, the worst of
which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">botan</product>
<announced>2016-12-13</announced>
<revised count="2">2016-12-13</revised>
<bug>574034</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="dev-libs/botan" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.10.12</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.10.12</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Botan (Japanese for peony) is a cryptography library written in C++11.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Botan. Please review
the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Botan users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/botan-1.10.12"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2194">CVE-2016-2194</uri>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2195">CVE-2016-2195</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-11-29T22:26:17Z">whissi</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-13T06:59:50Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>