[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: python-crypto-2.6.1-1.fc19

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-19441
2013-10-19 07:30:51
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Name        : python-crypto
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 2.6.1
Release     : 1.fc19
URL         : http://www.pycrypto.org/
Summary     : Cryptography library for Python
Description :
PyCrypto is a collection of both secure hash functions (such as MD5 and
SHA), and various encryption algorithms (AES, DES, RSA, ElGamal, etc.).

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Update Information:

In previous versions of PyCrypto, the Crypto.Random PRNG exhibits a race condition that may cause forked processes to generate identical sequences of 'random' numbers.

This release fixes the problem by resetting the rate-limiter when Crypto.Random.atfork() is invoked.

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ChangeLog:

* Fri Oct 18 2013 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> - 2.6.1-1
- Update to 2.6.1
  - Fix PRNG not correctly reseeded in some situations (CVE-2013-1445)
* Sun Aug  4 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.6-6
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1020814 - CVE-2013-1445 python-crypto: PRNG not correctly reseeded in some situations
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1020814
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update python-crypto' at the command line.
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