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Fedora 36: FEDORA-2022-111177a5ac Moderate Severity ECDSA Signature Issue

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The recent upgrade for Fedora 36 resolves CVE-2022-24884, which rectifies issues related to incorrect ECDSA signatures found in ecdsautils, thereby reinforcing security protocols.
Fixes CVE-2022-24884 (Improper Verification of ECDSA Signatures)

Summary

This collection of ECDSA utilities can be used to sign and verify data in a

simple manner.

Fixes CVE-2022-24884 (Improper Verification of ECDSA Signatures). In previous

versions ecdsautils would erroneously accept all-zero signatures as valid. More

information can be found here: https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/ecdsautils/security/advisories/GHSA-qhcg-9ffp-78pw

* Thu May 5 2022 Felix Kaechele - 0.4.1-1

- update to 0.4.1

- use new upstream URLs

- drop patch now upstreamed

- added libs and devel subpackages

[ 1 ] Bug #2082427 - CVE-2022-24884 ecdsautils: Improper Verification of ECDSA Signatures [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2082427

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-111177a5ac' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 36
Version: 0.4.1
Release: 1.fc36
Summary: Tiny collection of programs used for ECDSA (keygen, sign, verify)

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