Bug 2568534 (CVE-2026-104267) - CVE-2026-104267 botan: Botan: Denial of Service via heap buffer overflow in Scrypt
Summary: CVE-2026-104267 botan: Botan: Denial of Service via heap buffer overflow in S...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-104267
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-11-06 21:31 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-06 21:41 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-11-06 21:31:37 UTC
Botan is a C++ cryptography library. From 2.7.0 until 3.13.0, Botan's Scrypt implementation on 32-bit platforms computes required memory with unchecked multiplication, allowing attacker-controlled Scrypt parameters to wrap the allocation size and create a buffer smaller than the algorithm subsequently writes. The issue affects systems that enable Scrypt and accept arbitrary parameters from a hostile source, including applications that decrypt attacker-supplied encrypted private keys. A triggering parameter set can cause approximately four gigabytes of Scrypt output to be written past the allocated heap buffer, immediately crashing the process and causing denial of service. Arbitrary code execution is not demonstrated and appears difficult, but cannot be excluded from the overwrite primitive. This issue is fixed in version 3.13.0.


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