[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: libgcrypt-1.6.3-1.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-3489
2015-03-09 04:43:33
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Name        : libgcrypt
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 1.6.3
Release     : 1.fc21
URL         : http://www.gnupg.org/
Summary     : A general-purpose cryptography library
Description :
Libgcrypt is a general purpose crypto library based on the code used
in GNU Privacy Guard.  This is a development version.

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Update Information:

New upstream release fixing two minor security issues.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Mar  6 2015 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.6.3-1
- new upstream version
* Wed Feb 25 2015 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.6.2-4
- do not initialize secure memory during the selftest (#1195850)
* Sat Feb 21 2015 Till Maas <opensource at till.name> - 1.6.2-3
- Rebuilt for Fedora 23 Change
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_all_packages_with_position-independent_code
* Wed Jan 14 2015 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.6.2-2
- fix buildability of programs using gcrypt.h with -ansi (#1182200)
* Mon Dec  8 2014 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.6.2-1
- new upstream version
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1198145 - CVE-2014-3591 libgcrypt: use ciphertext blinding for Elgamal decryption (new side-channel attack)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198145
  [ 2 ] Bug #1198147 - CVE-2015-0837 libgcrypt: last-level cache side-channel attack
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198147
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update libgcrypt' at the command line.
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