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openSUSE Leap 15.2 Security Update: python-cryptography Attack Mitigation

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Calendar Grey December 6, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE has issued a security patch for python-cryptography to mitigate a moderate vulnerability risk, as detailed in this announcement.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for python-cryptography fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-25659: Attempted to mitigate Bleichenbacher attacks on RSA

decryption (bsc#1178168).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-2173=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

python-cryptography-debuginfo-2.8-lp152.2.3.1

python-cryptography-debugsource-2.8-lp152.2.3.1

python2-cryptography-2.8-lp152.2.3.1

python2-cryptography-debuginfo-2.8-lp152.2.3.1

python3-cryptography-2.8-lp152.2.3.1

python3-cryptography-debuginfo-2.8-lp152.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25659.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178168

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:2173-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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