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Fedora 23 python-rsa Critical Security Bug Fix FEDORA-2016-df2529c86c

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Calendar Grey April 6, 2016
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An important patch for python-rsa fixes serious vulnerabilities for Fedora 23. Make certain your installation is protected with this update.
New upstream release with security bug fix

Summary

Python-RSA is a pure-Python RSA implementation. It supports encryption

and decryption, signing and verifying signatures, and key generation

according to PKCS#1 version 1.5. It can be used as a Python library as

well as on the command-line.

Update Information:

New upstream release with security bug fix

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue fedora critical encryption python-rsa

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1170702 - Long-unfixed security vulnerabilities https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170702

Update Instructions

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

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Name: python-rsa
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 3.4.1
Release: 1.fc23
URL: http://stuvel.eu/rsa
Summary: Pure-Python RSA implementation

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security advisory security issue fedora critical encryption python-rsa

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