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Fedora 23 Security Advisory: mingw-nettle Fixes for Gnutls Issues

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Calendar Grey February 15, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
OpenSSL 1.1.1 and Libgcrypt 1.8.4 receive crucial patches in Ubuntu 20.04. Make sure to upgrade immediately!
Gnutls 3.4.9 and Nettle 3.2, security fixes.

Summary

Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in

more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented

languages (C++, Python, Pike, ...), in applications like LSH or GNUPG,

or even in kernel space.

Update Information:

Gnutls 3.4.9 and Nettle 3.2, security fixes.

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1304303 - CVE-2015-8803 nettle: secp256 calculation bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1304303

Update Instructions

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

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Name: mingw-nettle
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 3.2
Release: 1.fc23
URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
Summary: MinGW package for nettle cryptographic library

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security advisory software update Fedora security fix gnutls cryptographic library mingw-nettle

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