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Fedora 22 botan Security Update: Critical Threats Resolved

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Calendar Grey February 29, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 22 enhances botan by addressing significant vulnerabilities, thus guaranteeing maximal safety for its users.
Security fix for CVE-2016-2194, CVE-2016-2195, CVE-2016-2196

Summary

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.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-2194, CVE-2016-2195, CVE-2016-2196

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Topics Covered

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1305439 - CVE-2016-2196 CVE-2016-2195 CVE-2016-2194 botan: various flaws fixed in 1.11.27 and 1.10.11 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1305439

Update Instructions

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

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Name: botan
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 1.10.12
Release: 1.fc22
URL: https://botan.randombit.net/
Summary: Crypto library written in C++

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