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Fedora 22: Critical Security Update Addressing Bouncy Castle CVE-2015-7940

Security fix for CVE-2015-7940. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-7d95466eda 2016-01-04 16:02:44.028206 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : bouncycastle Product : Fedora 22 Version : 1.50 Release : 8.fc22 URL : https://www.bouncycastle.org/ Summary : Bouncy Castle Crypto Package for Java Description : The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms. The package is organized so that it contains a light-weight API suitable for use in any environment (including the newly released J2ME) with the additional infrastructure to conform the algorithms to the JCE framework. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Security fix for CVE-2015-7940 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1276272 - CVE-2015-7940 bouncycastle: Invalid curve attack allowing to extract private keys https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1276272 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update bouncycastle' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/package-announce.lists.fedoraproject.org/ . The Fedora 22 bouncycastle security update addresses CVE-2015-7940 vulnerabilities that risk private key extraction, enhancing cryptographicoperations in Java apps.. Fedora 22 Security Update,Bouncy Castle Crypto,Update CVE-2015-7940,Java Cryptography Fix. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jan 04, 2016 •Critical Fedora