Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-40529

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The ElGamal implementation in Botan through 2.18.1, as used in Thunderbird and other products, allows plaintext recovery because, during interaction between two...

Fedora: Security Advisory for botan2 (FEDORA-2021-8d51cac49f)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Fedora: Security Advisory for botan2 (FEDORA-2021-14b0d97496)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

CVE-2021-40529

The CVE-2021-40529 entry concerns the ElGamal implementation in Botan (through 2.18.1), used by Thunderbird and other products. A cross-configuration attack between two cryptographic libraries can lead to plaintext recovery by exploiting a dangerous combination of the receiver’s key prime and gen...