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Fedora 28: 2019-01afc2352f Critical: Mingw-Nettle Data Exposure Fix

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 28 has released an update for mingw-nettle addressing CVE-2018-16869; crucial fix for the cryptographic framework.
Resolves CVE-2018-16869

Summary

Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in

more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented

languages (C++, Python, Pike, ...), in applications like LSH or GNUPG,

or even in kernel space.

Resolves CVE-2018-16869

* Thu Jan 3 2019 Michael Cronenworth - 3.4.1-1

- New upstream release

* Fri Aug 24 2018 Richard W.M. Jones - 3.4-3

- Rebuild for new mingw-openssl.

* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.4-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

* Tue Jun 26 2018 Michael Cronenworth - 3.4-1

- New upstream release

* Thu Feb 8 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.3-4

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

[ 1 ] Bug #1655398 - CVE-2018-16869 mingw-nettle: nettle: Leaky data conversion exposing a manager oracle [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655398

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-01afc2352f' 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 28
Version: 3.4.1
Release: 1.fc28
Summary: MinGW package for nettle cryptographic library

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