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Fedora 27: libgcrypt Update Notification for Minor Security Fix

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 27 libgcrypt receives a small security patch that tackles input validation problems related to the X25519 elliptic curve.
Minor security update

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

[ 1 ] Bug #1485922 - CVE-2017-0379 libgcrypt: Missing input validation for X25519 curve [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1485922

[ 2 ] Bug #1472512 - libgcrypt-1.8.1 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1472512

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

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 1.8.1
Release: 1.fc27
Summary: A general-purpose cryptography library

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