{"id":"MGASA-2017-0327","summary":"Updated botan packages fix security vulnerability","details":"Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that an error in the x509 parser of the\nBotan crypto library could result in an out-of-bounds memory read,\nresulting in denial of service or an information leak if processing a\nmalformed certificate (CVE-2017-2801).\n","modified":"2026-04-16T06:23:22.726054199Z","published":"2017-09-03T14:31:33Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-2801"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0327.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21528"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://botan.randombit.net/security.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3939"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"botan","ecosystem":"Mageia:6","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/botan?arch=source&distro=mageia-6"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.10.14-5.1.mga6"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0327.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}