[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: bouncycastle-1.50-8.fc22

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-7d95466eda
2016-01-04 16:02:44.028206
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Name        : bouncycastle
Product     : Fedora 22
Version     : 1.50
Release     : 8.fc22
URL         : http://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.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-7940
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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
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
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