-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-7de64a450f 2016-12-22 13:25:04.701343 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : botan Product : Fedora 24 Version : 1.10.14 Release : 3.fc24 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 1.10.14 ### * NOTE WELL: Botan 1.10.x is supported for security patches only until 2017-12-31 * Fix integer overflow during BER decoding, found by Falko Strenzke. This bug is not thought to be directly exploitable but upgrading ASAP is advised. (CVE-2016-9132) * Fix two cases where (in error situations) an exception would be thrown from a destructor, causing a call to std::terminate. * When RC4 is disabled in the build, also prevent it from being included in the OpenSSL provider. (GH #638) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1400894 - CVE-2016-9132 botan: Integer overflow in BER decoder https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400894 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade botan' 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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