High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published May 13, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2015-5726

Description

The BER decoder in Botan 0.10.x before 1.10.10 and 1.11.x before 1.11.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an empty BIT STRING in ASN.1 data.

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

botan.randombit.net/security.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3565nvd

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