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CVE-2024-50383
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2024-10-23T17:15:19.540 · Last modified 2026-06-17T08:04:21.137

Summary

Botan before 3.6.0, when certain GCC versions are used, has a compiler-induced secret-dependent operation in lib/utils/donna128.h in donna128 (used in Chacha-Poly1305 and x25519). An addition can be skipped if a carry is not set. This was observed for GCC 11.3.0 with -O2 on MIPS, and GCC on x86-i386. (Only 32-bit processors can be affected.)

Affected products

botan_project — botan

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References

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