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openSUSE Leap 42.2: Critical bouncycastle Security Flaw 2016:0023-2

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2015
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Users of openSUSE 13.1, 13.2, and Leap 42.1 should update their bouncycastle package to resolve the CVE-2015-7940 vulnerability for better security
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

bouncycastle was updated to version 1.53 to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed:

- CVE-2015-7940: Invalid curve attack (bsc#951727).

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update important code issue openSUSE bouncycastle

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-705=1

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-705=1

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-705=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

bouncycastle-1.53-16.1

bouncycastle-javadoc-1.53-16.1

- openSUSE 13.2 (noarch):

bouncycastle-1.53-13.3.1

bouncycastle-javadoc-1.53-13.3.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (noarch):

bouncycastle-1.53-8.3.1

bouncycastle-javadoc-1.53-8.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7940.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=951727

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:1911-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 openSUSE 13.2 openSUSE 13.1 .

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