-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-19472 2013-10-19 07:32:07 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : python-crypto Product : Fedora 18 Version : 2.6.1 Release : 1.fc18 URL : http://www.pycrypto.org/ Summary : Cryptography library for Python Description : PyCrypto is a collection of both secure hash functions (such as MD5 and SHA), and various encryption algorithms (AES, DES, RSA, ElGamal, etc.). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: In previous versions of PyCrypto, the Crypto.Random PRNG exhibits a race condition that may cause forked processes to generate identical sequences of 'random' numbers. This release fixes the problem by resetting the rate-limiter when Crypto.Random.atfork() is invoked. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Oct 18 2013 Paul Howarth <[email protected]> - 2.6.1-1 - Update to 2.6.1 - Fix PRNG not correctly reseeded in some situations (CVE-2013-1445) * Sun Aug 4 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 2.6-6 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild * Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 2.6-5 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1020814 - CVE-2013-1445 python-crypto: PRNG not correctly reseeded in some situations https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1020814 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update python-crypto' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. 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/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
