AZL-51707 CVE-2024-50382 affecting package botan2 2.14.0-2

Botan before 3.6.0, when certain LLVM versions are used, has compiler-induced secret-dependent control flow in lib/utils/ghash/ghash.cpp in GHASH in AES-GCM. There is a branch instead of an XOR with carry. This was observed for Clang in LLVM 15 on RISC-V...

PT-2024-7941 · Botan +3 · Botan +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Botan versions prior to 3.6.0 Description: The issue is related to a component of the Botan cryptographic library, specifically in lib/utils/ghash/ghash.cpp, where there is a potential information disclosure due to inconsistency. This could...