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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2016-7b4a60ae66 moderate: mitigation for python-jwcrypto

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Calendar Grey September 10, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
To mitigate the CVE-2016-6298 vulnerability in python-jwcrypto on Fedora, follow these steps: use terminal commands to check and apply updates.
Security fix for CVE-2016-6298

Summary

Implements JWK,JWS,JWE specifications using python-cryptography

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-6298

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security fix attack mitigation python-jwcrypto

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1371799 - CVE-2016-6298 jwcrypto: million messages attack vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1371799

Update Instructions

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

Name: python-jwcrypto
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 0.3.2
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://github.com/simo5/jwcrypto
Summary: Implements JWK,JWS,JWE specifications using python-cryptography

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security fix attack mitigation python-jwcrypto

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