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Fedora 33: FEDORA-2021-24d4e06195 Critical ElGamal Encryption Fix

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Calendar Grey June 29, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 34 enhances OpenSSL to mitigate CVE-2021-12345 cryptographic vulnerabilities and bolster encryption standards.
Security fix for CVE-2021-33560 (#1970098)

Summary

Libgcrypt is a general purpose crypto library based on the code used

in GNU Privacy Guard. This is a development version.

Security fix for CVE-2021-33560 (#1970098)

* Mon Jun 14 2021 Jakub Jelen - 1.8.8-1

- New upstream release fixing CVE-2021-33560 (#1970098)

[ 1 ] Bug #1970096 - CVE-2021-33560 libgcrypt: mishandles ElGamal encryption because it lacks exponent blinding to address a side-channel attack against mpi_powm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1970096

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-24d4e06195' 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 33
Version: 1.8.8
Release: 1.fc33
Summary: A general-purpose cryptography library

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