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openSUSE Leap 15.0: 2018:2131-1 Moderate: Bouncycastle Threat Fix

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Calendar Grey July 28, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest release for openSUSE resolves significant vulnerabilities in bouncycastle, boosting security measures and safeguarding against possible threats.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for bouncycastle fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2018-1000613: Fix use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select

Classes or Code ('Unsafe Reflection') (boo#1100694).

- CVE-2017-13098: Fix against Bleichenbacher oracle when not using the

lightweight APIs (boo#1072697).

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-776=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (noarch):

bouncycastle-1.60-lp150.2.3.1

bouncycastle-javadoc-1.60-lp150.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13098.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000613.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1072697

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1100694

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2131-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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