-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-8392 2012-05-26 03:16:03 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : python-crypto Product : Fedora 17 Version : 2.6 Release : 1.fc17 URL : http://www.pycrypto.org/ Summary : Cryptography library for Python Description : PyCrypto is a collection of both secure hash functions (such as MD5 and SHA), and various encryption algorithms (AES, DES, RSA, ElGamal, etc.).
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
This update, to the current upstream pycrypto release, includes a number of regular bug fixes plus a security fix for CVE-2012-2417 (insecure ElGamal key generation). Anyone using ElGamal keys should generate new keys as soon as practical (any additional information about this bug will be tracked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/pycrypto/+bug/985164).
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Thu May 24 2012 Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org - 2.6-1 - Update to 2.6 - Fix insecure ElGamal key generation (launchpad bug #985164, CVE-2012-2417) - Huge documentation cleanup - Added more tests, including test vectors from NIST 800-38A - Remove broken MODE_PGP, which never actually worked properly - A new mode, MODE_OPENPGP, has been added for people wishing to write OpenPGP implementations (see also launchpad bug #996814) - Fix: getPrime with invalid input causes Python to abort with fatal error (launchpad bug #988431) - Fix: Segfaults within error-handling paths (launchpad bug #934294) - Fix: Block ciphers allow empty string as IV (launchpad bug #997464) - Fix DevURandomRNG to work with Python3's new I/O stack - Remove automagic dependencies on libgmp and libmpir; let the caller disable them using args - Many other minor bug fixes and improvements - Drop upstream patches -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #825162 - CVE-2012-2417 python-crypto: Insecure ElGamal key generation https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825162 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update python-crypto' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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