Fedora 24: Update Botan 1.10.13 Critical: ECDSA And RSA Security Fixes
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May 7, 2016
From the upstream release notes: Botan 1.10.13 has been released backporting some side channel protections for ECDSA signatures (CVE-2016-2849) and PKCS #1 RSA decryption (CVE-2015...
Summary
Botan is a BSD-licensed crypto library written in C++. It provides a
wide variety of basic cryptographic algorithms, X.509 certificates and
CRLs, PKCS \#10 certificate requests, a filter/pipe message processing
system, and a wide variety of other features, all written in portable
C++. The API reference, tutorial, and examples may help impart the
flavor of the library.
Update Information:
From the upstream release notes: Botan 1.10.13 has been released backporting some side channel protections for ECDSA signatures (CVE-2016-2849) and PKCS #1 RSA decryption (CVE-2015-7827).
Topics Covered
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1311989 - CVE-2015-7827 botan: PKCS #1 decoding not in constant time
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311989
[ 2 ] Bug #1330875 - CVE-2016-2849 CVE-2016-2850 botan: two issues fixed in 1.11.29
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330875
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update botan' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .
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Name: botan
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.10.13
Release: 1.fc24
Summary: Crypto library written in C++
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