Debian: DSA-3939-1: botan1.10 security update

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that an error in the x509 parser of the Botan crypto library could result in an out-of-bounds memory read, resulting in denial of service or an information leak if processing a malformed certificate.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3939-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff
August 12, 2017                       https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : botan1.10
CVE ID         : CVE-2017-2801

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that an error in the x509 parser of the
Botan crypto library could result in an out-of-bounds memory read,
resulting in denial of service or an information leak if processing
a malformed certificate.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.10.8-2+deb8u2.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed
prior to the initial release.

We recommend that you upgrade your botan1.10 packages.

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