Fedora 27 cryptopp 5.6.5 Moderate: Security Release Fixes Multiple Issues

Crypto++ Library is a free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes.

See https://cryptopp.com/ for a list of supported algorithms.

One purpose of Crypto++ is to act as a repository of public domain

(not copyrighted) source code. Although the library is copyrighted as a

compilation, the individual files in it are in the public domain.

Update cryptopp to 5.6.5 security release. * fixed CVE-2016-7420 (Issue 277,

document NDEBUG for production/release) * fixed CVE-2016-7544 (Issue 302, avoid

_malloca and _freea for MSC compilers) * Shipped library in recommended state

backwards compatibility achieved with * improved Testing and QA

[ 1 ] Bug #1376698 - CVE-2016-7420 cryptopp: Library documentation lacks treatment of -DNDEBUG and Static Initialization [epel-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376698

[ 2 ] Bug #1376697 - CVE-2016-7420 cryptopp: Library documentation lacks treatment of -DNDEBUG and Static Initialization [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376697

[ 3 ] Bug #1375180 - CryptoPP::CMAC_Base::Update assert failed with tegrarcm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375180

[ 4 ] Bug #1401407 - Cryptopp 5.6.5 released, Fedora Rawhide currently on 5.6.3

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1401407

su -c 'dnf upgrade cryptopp' 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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