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Fedora: Notification for libgcrypt Moderate RSA Key Issue

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Calendar Grey July 14, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 24 has released an update for libgcrypt to fix a moderate vulnerability that allows for RSA key recovery. Users can apply the fix using dnf package manager
New upstream release fixing moderate security issue CVE-2017-7526.

Summary

Libgcrypt is a general purpose crypto library based on the code used

in GNU Privacy Guard. This is a development version.

New upstream release fixing moderate security issue CVE-2017-7526.

[ 1 ] Bug #1466265 - CVE-2017-7526 libgcrypt: Use of left-to-right sliding window method allows full RSA key recovery

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1466265

su -c 'dnf upgrade libgcrypt' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.7.8
Release: 1.fc24
Summary: A general-purpose cryptography library

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