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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-3896
2011-07-22 19:02:37
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Name : botan
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 1.8.13
Release : 2.el5
URL :
http://botan.randombit.net/
Summary : Crypto library written in C++
Description :
Botan is a BSD-licensed crypto library written in C++. It provides a
wide variety of basic cryptographic algorithms, X.509 certificates and
CRLs, PKCS \#10 certificate requests, a filter/pipe message processing
system, and a wide variety of other features, all written in portable
C++. The API reference, tutorial, and examples may help impart the
flavor of the library.
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Update Information:
Botan 1.8.13 has been released with a fix for a recently discovered bug that could cause
crashes in multithreaded code.
A full description of the problem can be found on the mailing list:
http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/botan-devel/2011-July/001455.html
Update to the latest version of the 1.8 series, 1.8.12.
Relevant items from the upstream changelog:
* If EMSA3(Raw) was used for more than one signature, it would produce incorrect output.
* Fix a memory leak in the constructors of DataSource_Stream and DataSink_Stream which
would occur if opening the file failed. PR 144
See
http://botan.randombit.net/log.html#version-1-8-12-2011-06-20.
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update botan' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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