Fedora EPEL 5 Update: botan-1.8.13-2.el5

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-3896
2011-07-22 19:02:37
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Name        : botan
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 1.8.13
Release     : 2.el5
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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Update Information:

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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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update botan' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL 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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