[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: ecdsautils-0.4.1-1.fc36
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-111177a5ac
2022-05-14 01:48:30.603225
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Name : ecdsautils
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 0.4.1
Release : 1.fc36
URL : https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/ecdsautils
Summary : Tiny collection of programs used for ECDSA (keygen, sign, verify)
Description :
This collection of ECDSA utilities can be used to sign and verify data in a
simple manner.
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Update Information:
Fixes CVE-2022-24884 (Improper Verification of ECDSA Signatures). In previous
versions ecdsautils would erroneously accept all-zero signatures as valid. More
information can be found here: https://github.com/freifunk-
gluon/ecdsautils/security/advisories/GHSA-qhcg-9ffp-78pw
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ChangeLog:
* Thu May 5 2022 Felix Kaechele <felix(a)kaechele.ca> - 0.4.1-1
- update to 0.4.1
- use new upstream URLs
- drop patch now upstreamed
- added libs and devel subpackages
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #2082427 - CVE-2022-24884 ecdsautils: Improper Verification of ECDSA
Signatures [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2082427
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-111177a5ac' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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
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