CVE-2014-9742

NameCVE-2014-9742
DescriptionThe Miller-Rabin primality check in Botan before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.9 improperly uses a single random base, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a DH group.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-449-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
botan1.10 (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.10.8-2+deb8u2fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch1.10.17-1+deb9u1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
botan1.10sourcewheezy1.10.5-1+deb7u1DLA-449-1
botan1.10source(unstable)1.10.8-1

Notes

Introduced in 1.8.3, fixed in 1.10.8 and 1.11.9
http://botan.randombit.net/security.html

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