Fedora 28 Bouncy Castle Critical Advisory: TLS and RSA Risk

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

[ 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-ceced55c5e' 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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