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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2016-89968f88d2 Critical: Nettle Secp256 Bug Fix

updated to 3.2 (#1301310). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-89968f88d2 2016-02-04 19:22:11.000206 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : nettle Product : Fedora 23 Version : 3.2 Release : 1.fc23 URL : http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/ Summary : A low-level cryptographic library Description : Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages (C++, Python, Pike, ...), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: updated to 3.2 (#1301310) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1304303 - CVE-2015-8803 nettle: secp256 calculation bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1304303 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update nettle' 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 Ubuntu Security Patch for libgcrypt fixes a significant elliptic curve issue. Make sure your software is current.. Fedora 23 Security, Nettle Bug Fix, Critical Update, Cryptographic Library. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Feb 04, 2016 Fedora