CVE-2026-44378
Description
A flaw was found in Botan, a C++ cryptography library. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted Basic Encoding Rules (BER) data with indefinite length encodings. This could cause quadratic behavior in the parser, leading to a denial of service (DoS) due to excessive resource consumption.
Statement
Red Hat Product Security has determined that this vulnerability does not affect any currently supported Red Hat product. This assessment may evolve based on further analysis and discovery. For more information about this vulnerability and the products it affects, please see the linked references.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Availability
Technical Impact: DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU); DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory); DoS: Resource Consumption (Other)
The typical consequence is CPU consumption, but memory consumption and consumption of other resources can also occur.
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