Botan: Multiple vulnerabilities

Botan: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Botan, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. botan 2016-12-13 2016-12-13 574034 remote 1.10.12 1.10.12

Botan (Japanese for peony) is a cryptography library written in C++11.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Botan. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Botan users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/botan-1.10.12"

CVE-2016-2194 CVE-2016-2195 whissi whissi