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Fedora 24: FEDORA-2016-ea12345678 Important: OpenSSL Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2015
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Update for OpenSSL in Ubuntu 20.04 focusing on vulnerability fix in AES encryption module, improving overall performance.
Fixes a buffer overflow in EVP.pbkdf2.

Summary

This package allows you to call OpenSSL functions from python scripts.

Update Information:

Fixes a buffer overflow in EVP.pbkdf2.

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1271165 - m2crypto: pbkdf2 function crashes when given 74 byte result as argument https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271165

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update m2crypto' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: m2crypto
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 0.22.5
Release: 2.fc23
URL: https://gitlab.com/m2crypto/m2crypto/
Summary: Support for using OpenSSL in python scripts

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