Fedora 33: MODERATE: Buffer Overflow Fix in Python-Cryptography Package

cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and

recipes to Python developers.

Security fix for CVE-2020-36242 Fixed a bug where certain sequences of update()

calls when symmetrically encrypting very large payloads (>2GB) could result in

an integer overflow, leading to buffer overflows.

* Mon Feb 8 2021 Christian Heimes - 3.2.1-2

- CVE-2020-36242: Fixed a bug where certain sequences of update() calls

when symmetrically encrypting very large payloads (>2GB) could result

in an integer overflow, leading to buffer overflows.

- Resolves: rhbz#1926227

[ 1 ] Bug #1926226 - CVE-2020-36242 python-cryptography: certain sequences of update() calls when symmetrically encrypting very large payloads could result in an integer overflow and lead to buffer overflows

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1926226

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-8e36e7ed1a' 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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