CVE-2024-50382
mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.005 · 46 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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references (13)
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- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.13489cnnvd
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/53b0cfde580e86b03d0d27a488b6c134f662e957cnnvd
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/compare/3.5.0...3.6.0cnnvd
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41887153cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Botan-weak-signature-via-XOR-With-Carry-45495cnnvd
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.13489enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/53b0cfde580e86b03d0d27a488b6c134f662e957enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/compare/3.5.0...3.6.0enisa_euvd
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