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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2018-da9fe79871 Critical: TLS and RSA Key Issues

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Calendar Grey June 18, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential patches for Bouncy Castle focusing on vulnerabilities in TLS server configurations and shortcomings in RSA key generation processes.
Security fixes for CVE-2017-13098 and CVE-2018-1000180

Summary

The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic

algorithms. This jar contains JCE provider and lightweight API for the

Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for JDK 1.5 to JDK 1.8.

Security fixes for CVE-2017-13098 and CVE-2018-1000180

* Thu Jun 7 2018 Mat Booth - 1.59-1

- Update to latest release

- Fixes CVE-2018-1000180 and CVE-2017-13098

* Wed Feb 7 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.58-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild

* Fri Jan 5 2018 Mat Booth - 1.58-2

- Fix error in scriptlet

[ 1 ] Bug #1525528 - CVE-2017-13098 bouncycastle: TLS server vulnerable to Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack when using JCE allowing plaintext recovery or MITM attack

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1525528

[ 2 ] Bug #1588306 - CVE-2018-1000180 bouncycastle: flaw in the low-level interface to RSA key pair generator

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1588306

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-da9fe79871' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 1.59
Release: 1.fc27
Summary: Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for Java

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