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Fedora 24: Security Update Report for KeepassX Version 0.4.4

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
KeePassX has released a critical security patch for Fedora 24, incorporating advanced AES encryption along with various improvements to the password management system.
Revert to 0.4.4 for f24+, update to 0.4.4.

Summary

KeePassX is an application for people with extremly high demands on secure

personal data management.

KeePassX saves many different information e.g. user names, passwords, urls,

attachemts and comments in one single database. For a better management

user-defined titles and icons can be specified for each single entry.

Furthermore the entries are sorted in groups, which are customizable as well.

The integrated search function allows to search in a single group or the

complete database.

KeePassX offers a little utility for secure password generation. The password

generator is very customizable, fast and easy to use. Especially someone who

generates passwords frequently will appreciate this feature.

The complete database is always encrypted either with AES (alias Rijndael) or

Twofish encryption algorithm using a 256 bit key. Therefore the saved

information can be considered as quite safe. KeePassX uses a database format

that is compatible with KeePass Password Safe for MS Windows.

Update Information:

Revert to 0.4.4 for f24+, update to 0.4.4.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora password manager AES encryption keepassx

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1297639 - unwanted update of keepassx requires one-way database conversion https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1297639

Update Instructions

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

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Name: keepassx
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 0.4.4
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://www.keepassx.org/
Summary: Cross-platform password manager

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora password manager AES encryption keepassx

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