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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-98f44d1c4c Critical: Rust-Aes-Gcm Decryption Issue

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Calendar Grey October 3, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This enhancement addresses a vital bug within rust-aes-gcm that impacts decryption operations, thereby bolstering security.
- Update the aes-gcm crate to version 0.10.3

Summary

Pure Rust implementation of the AES-GCM (Galois/Counter Mode)

Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) Cipher with

optional architecture-specific hardware acceleration.

Update Information:

- Update the aes-gcm crate to version 0.10.3. Addresses CVE-2023-42811. - Rebuild dependent packages (firecracker) for aes-gcm v0.10.3. https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-42811

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora security fix decryption aes-gcm

Change Log

* Sun Sep 24 2023 Fabio Valentini - 0.10.3-1 - Update to version 0.10.3; Fixes RHBZ#2240136 * Fri Jul 21 2023 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.10.2-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2240269 - CVE-2023-42811 rust-aes-gcm: aes-gcm: Plaintext exposed in decrypt_in_place_detached even on tag verification failure [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240269

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-98f44d1c4c' 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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Name: rust-aes-gcm
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 0.10.3
Release: 1.fc38
URL: Summary : Pure Rust implementation of the AES-GCM AEAD Cipher

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security advisory critical Fedora security fix decryption aes-gcm

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