-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2011-3889 2011-07-22 19:02:20 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : botan Product : Fedora EPEL 6 Version : 1.8.13 Release : 2.el6 URL : http://botan.randombit.net/ Summary : Crypto library written in C++ Description : Botan is a BSD-licensed crypto library written in C++. It provides a wide variety of basic cryptographic algorithms, X.509 certificates and CRLs, PKCS #10 certificate requests, a filter/pipe message processing system, and a wide variety of other features, all written in portable C++. The API reference, tutorial, and examples may help impart the flavor of the library.
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Botan 1.8.13 has been released with a fix for a recently discovered bug that could cause crashes in multithreaded code.
A full description of the problem can be found on the mailing list: http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/botan-devel/2011-July/001455.html
Update to the latest version of the 1.8 series, 1.8.12.
Relevant items from the upstream changelog:
* If EMSA3(Raw) was used for more than one signature, it would produce incorrect output. * Fix a memory leak in the constructors of DataSource_Stream and DataSink_Stream which would occur if opening the file failed. PR 144
See http://botan.randombit.net/log.html#version-1-8-12-2011-06-20.
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