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Fedora: 24 libotr Security Update CVE-2016-2851 Critical Threat

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2016
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Updated to 4.1.1 for CVE-2016-2851

Summary

Off-the-Record Messaging Library and Toolkit

This is a library and toolkit which implements Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging.

OTR allows you to have private conversations over IM by providing Encryption,

Authentication, Deniability and Perfect forward secrecy.

Update Information:

Updated to 4.1.1 for CVE-2016-2851

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical encryption Fedora attack libotr

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1315247 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1315247

Update Instructions

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

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Name: libotr
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.1.1
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/
Summary: Off-The-Record Messaging library and toolkit

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical encryption Fedora attack libotr

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