Fedora 20 Update: nettle-2.7.1-3.fc20

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-0613
2014-01-11 07:24:31
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Name        : nettle
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 2.7.1
Release     : 3.fc20
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.

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Update Information:

Fix large allocations using alloca() and upgrade to latest release.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jan 10 2014 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at redhat.com> - 2.7.1-3
- Corrected bug number in previous comment.
* Fri Dec 13 2013 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at redhat.com> - 2.7.1-2
- Added patch nettle-tmpalloc.patch to solve #1051455
* Mon Nov 25 2013 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at redhat.com> - 2.7.1-1
- Updated to nettle 2.7.1
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1051455 - alloca used with potentially large arguments
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1051455
  [ 2 ] Bug #1051445 - Rebase nettle to latest upstream (2.7.1)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1051445
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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 http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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