Vulnerability   
Search   
    Search 324607 CVE descriptions
and 145615 test descriptions,
access 10,000+ cross references.
Tests   CVE   All  

Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.819181
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora: Security Advisory for botan2 (FEDORA-2021-14b0d97496)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'botan2'; package(s) announced via the FEDORA-2021-14b0d97496 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'botan2'
package(s) announced via the FEDORA-2021-14b0d97496 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Botan is a BSD-licensed crypto library written in C++. It provides a
wide variety of basic cryptographic algorithms, X.509 certificates and
CRLs, PKCS \#10 certificate requests, a filter/pipe message processing
system, and a wide variety of other features, all written in portable
C++. The API reference, tutorial, and examples may help impart the
flavor of the library. This is the current stable release branch 2.x
of Botan.

Affected Software/OS:
'botan2' package(s) on Fedora 35.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
2.6

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-40529
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UPHGYWNJQKWLTUWBNSFB4F66MQDIL3IB/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/72NB4OLD3VHJC3YF3PEP2HKF6BYURPAO/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14
https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/923
https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/2790
https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/07/20/insecurity-elgamal-pt1
https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/09/06/insecurity-elgamal-pt2
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH

This is only one of 145615 vulnerability tests in our test suite. Find out more about running a complete security audit.

To run a free test of this vulnerability against your system, register below.




© 1998-2025 E-Soft Inc. All rights reserved.