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2017-04-10
botan 1.11.x before 1.11.22 improperly handles wildcard matching against hostnames, which might allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a valid X.509 certificate, as demonstrated by accepting *.example.com as a match for bar.foo.example.com.
| Products | Botan |
| Type | Improper Certificate Validation (CWE-295) |
| First patch | - None (likely due to unavailable code) |
| Links |
• https://botan.randombit.net/security.html#id3
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311620 |