ubuntu · CVE-2016-6879

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-04-10 15:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:09:07 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-6879 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (botan1.10, botan1.8), 12 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 8, DNE 4.

Description:

The X509_Certificate::allowed_usage function in botan 1.11.x before 1.11.31 might allow attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging a call with more than one Key_Usage set in the enum value.

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