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Fedora 25: Security Update 1.7.9 for Libgcrypt Critical: Input Validation

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Calendar Grey November 14, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 25 has launched an upgrade for libgcrypt, offering vital security patches for weaknesses disclosed.
Minor security update release 1.7.9.

Summary

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

in GNU Privacy Guard. This is a development version.

Minor security update release 1.7.9.

[ 1 ] Bug #1485921 - CVE-2017-0379 libgcrypt: Missing input validation for X25519 curve

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1485921

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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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.7.9
Release: 1.fc25
Summary: A general-purpose cryptography library

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