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Fedora 26: Security Update for libgcrypt Moderate Timing Attack

fedora
Calendar Grey June 11, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 26 has released a libgcrypt security update to fix a minor timing attack issue. Install using terminal commands to enhance system security
Minor update from upstream fixing low impact security issue.

Summary

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

in GNU Privacy Guard. This is a development version.

Minor update from upstream fixing low impact security issue.

[ 1 ] Bug #1459890 - libgcrypt: Possible timing attack on EdDSA session key [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459890

[ 2 ] Bug #1403402 - libgcrypt-1.7.7 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403402

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 26
Version: 1.7.7
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: A general-purpose cryptography library

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