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Fedora 22: 2015-6868 Critical Update for Mingw-Libgcrypt - Encryption Flaws

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Calendar Grey May 1, 2015
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Fedora 22 users should update mingw-libgcrypt to address critical security vulnerabilities impacting system stability and security measures.
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

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Change Log

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 22
Version: 1.6.3
Release: 1.fc22
URL: Summary : MinGW Windows gcrypt encryption library

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