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Fedora 28 FEDORA-2018-f7d9989c42 Moderate: Nettle Data Exposure Fix

fedora
Calendar Grey December 29, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notifi
Security fix for 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.

Security fix for CVE-2018-16869

* Wed Dec 12 2018 Anderson Toshiyuki Sasaki - 3.4.1-1

- Update to upstream 3.4.1 release

- Resolves CVE-2018-16869 (#1658603)

[ 1 ] Bug #1654930 - CVE-2018-16869 nettle: Leaky data conversion exposing a manager oracle

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1654930

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-f7d9989c42' 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: A low-level cryptographic library

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