Mageia alert MGASA-2017-0327 (botan)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2017-0327: Updated botan packages fix security vulnerability 
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Sun, 3 Sep 2017 16:32:12 +0200
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MGASA-2017-0327 - Updated botan packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 03 Sep 2017
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0327.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2017-2801

Description:
Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that an error in the x509 parser of the
Botan crypto library could result in an out-of-bounds memory read,
resulting in denial of service or an information leak if processing a
malformed certificate (CVE-2017-2801).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21528
- https://botan.randombit.net/security.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3939
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2801

SRPMS:
- 6/core/botan-1.10.14-5.1.mga6