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CVE-2016-6879 (GCVE-0-2016-6879)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-10 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:43
VLAI
Summary
The X509_Certificate::allowed_usage function in botan 1.11.x before 1.11.31 might allow attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging a call with more than one Key_Usage set in the enum value.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
https://botan.randombit.net/security.html#id2 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2016-08-30 00:00
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