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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2024-34702 EUVD-2024-34997

Botan has a Denial of Service Due to Excessive Name Constraints

Published Jul 8, 2024 · Updated Aug 2, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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 3.5.0 and 2.19.5, checking name constraints in X.509 certificates is quadratic in the number of names and name constraints. An attacker who presented a certificate chain which contained a very large number of names in the SubjectAlternativeName, signed by a CA certificate which contained a large number of name constraints, could cause a denial of service. The problem has been addressed in Botan 3.5.0 and a partial backport has also been applied and is included in Botan 2.19.5.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
randombit botan < 2.19.5, >= 3.0.0, < 3.5.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 13 botan 2.19.5+dfsg-1 —
Debian 12 botan 2.19.3+dfsg-1+deb12u1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS botan No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS botan No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS botan 2.19.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2+esm1 USN-7586-1
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS botan 2.19.1+dfsg-2ubuntu1+esm1 USN-7586-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP5 Botan 2.19.5-bp155.2.3.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:0201-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed Botan 2.19.5-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:14188-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 Botan 2.19.5-bp155.2.3.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:0201-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 botan3 3.5.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 botan3 3.5.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 botan3 3.5.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.21 botan 2.19.5-r0 —
Alpine v3.21 botan3 3.5.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.20 botan 2.19.5-r0 —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.19 botan 2.19.5-r0 —
Alpine v3.18 botan 2.19.5-r0 —
Alpine v3.17 botan 2.19.5-r0 —

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 botan2 No fix yet —
Azure Linux 2 (CBL-Mariner) botan2 No fix yet —

Advisories 3

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