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Fedora 22: libotr 4.1.1 Severe Threat CVE-2016-2851 Update

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Calendar Grey March 19, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 22 has introduced a critical update to the libotr library, addressing CVE-2016-2851 vulnerabilities to enhance instant messaging security and confidentiality
Updated to 4.1.1 for CVE-2016-2851

Summary

Off-the-Record Messaging Library and Toolkit

This is a library and toolkit which implements Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging.

OTR allows you to have private conversations over IM by providing Encryption,

Authentication, Deniability and Perfect forward secrecy.

Update Information:

Updated to 4.1.1 for CVE-2016-2851

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Topics Covered

security advisory encryption Fedora messaging libotr

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1315247 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1315247

Update Instructions

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

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Name: libotr
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 4.1.1
Release: 1.fc22
URL: https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/
Summary: Off-The-Record Messaging library and toolkit

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory encryption Fedora messaging libotr

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