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Mageia 7: MGASA-2021-0329 Critical: Botan2 Encoding Issue

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Calendar Grey July 10, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Revised cryptography packages tackle a vital issue by implementing secure algorithms to remedy earlier vulnerabilities.
Updated botan2 packages fix security vulnerability: In Botan before 2.17.3, constant-time computations are not used for certain decoding and encoding operations (base32, base58, b...

Summary

Updated botan2 packages fix security vulnerability:
In Botan before 2.17.3, constant-time computations are not used for certain decoding and encoding operations (base32, base58, base64, and hex) (CVE-2021-24115).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29057

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24115

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update critical threat encoding issue decoding issue mageia botan2

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/botan2-2.9.0-2.2.mga7

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Publication date: 10 Jul 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0329.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-24115

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update critical threat encoding issue decoding issue mageia botan2

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