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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2016-89968f88d2 Critical: Nettle Secp256 Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey February 4, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Ubuntu Security Patch for libgcrypt fixes a significant elliptic curve issue. Make sure your software is current.
updated to 3.2 (#1301310)

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:

updated to 3.2 (#1301310)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora bug fix cryptographic library Nettle secp256

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 nettle' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: nettle
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 3.2
Release: 1.fc23
URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
Summary: A low-level cryptographic library

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora bug fix cryptographic library Nettle secp256

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