CVE-2015-5726 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the application by sending ASN.1 data with an empty BIT STRING, affecting users of the Botan library.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2015-5726?
CVE-2015-5726 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 13 May 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The BER decoder in Botan 0.10.x before 1.10.10 and 1.11.x before 1.11.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an empty BIT STRING in ASN.1 data.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-5726?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Botan Project Botan, Debian Debian Linux.
How do I fix CVE-2015-5726?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2015-5726 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5726 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jcv7-v2cp-24v2, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5726.