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Fedora 21: 2015-6881 Moderate: Mingw-Libgcrypt Encryption Flaws

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Calendar Grey May 4, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora's mingw-libgcrypt upgrade addresses multiple vulnerabilities, bolstering the reliability and security of the encryption library.
Update to 1.6.3 which fixes CVE-2014-3591 CVE-2015-0837

Summary

Libgcrypt is a general purpose crypto library based on the code used

in GNU Privacy Guard.

This is a Windows cross-compiled version of the library.

Update Information:

Update to 1.6.3 which fixes CVE-2014-3591 CVE-2015-0837

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update encryption Fedora flaws mingw-libgcrypt

Change Log

* Fri Apr 24 2015 Erik van Pienbroek - 1.6.3-1 - Update to 1.6.3 - Fixes CVE-2014-3591 CVE-2015-0837 (RHBZ #1198153 #1198156) * Tue Dec 23 2014 Erik van Pienbroek - 1.6.2-1 - Update to 1.6.2

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1198153 - CVE-2015-0837 CVE-2014-3591 mingw-libgcrypt: various flaws [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198153

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update mingw-libgcrypt' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: mingw-libgcrypt
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 1.6.3
Release: 1.fc21
URL: Summary : MinGW Windows gcrypt encryption library

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security advisory moderate update encryption Fedora flaws mingw-libgcrypt

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