[Secure-testing-team] Bug#860072: botan1.10: CVE-2017-2801: Incorrect comparison in X.509 DN strings

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: botan1.10
Version: 1.10.8-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for botan1.10.

CVE-2017-2801[0]:
Incorrect comparison in X.509 DN strings

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-2801
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2801
[1] https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/c927101675e5f63fc0bdd93c5a4825adc54323b4

Regards,
Salvatore


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)