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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-da9fe79871
2018-06-18 15:14:44.814726
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Name : bouncycastle
Product : Fedora 27
Version : 1.59
Release : 1.fc27
URL :
http://www.bouncycastle.org
Summary : Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for Java
Description :
The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic
algorithms. This jar contains JCE provider and lightweight API for the
Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for JDK 1.5 to JDK 1.8.
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Update Information:
Security fixes for CVE-2017-13098 and CVE-2018-1000180
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Jun 7 2018 Mat Booth <mat.booth(a)redhat.com> - 1.59-1
- Update to latest release
- Fixes CVE-2018-1000180 and CVE-2017-13098
* Wed Feb 7 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.58-3
- Rebuilt for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
* Fri Jan 5 2018 Mat Booth <mat.booth(a)redhat.com> - 1.58-2
- Fix error in scriptlet
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1525528 - CVE-2017-13098 bouncycastle: TLS server vulnerable to Adaptive
Chosen Ciphertext attack when using JCE allowing plaintext recovery or MITM attack
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1525528
[ 2 ] Bug #1588306 - CVE-2018-1000180 bouncycastle: flaw in the low-level interface to
RSA key pair generator
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1588306
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-da9fe79871' 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
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