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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-a545f81683
2016-05-07 11:36:53.840016
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Name        : botan
Product     : Fedora 24
Version     : 1.10.13
Release     : 1.fc24
URL         : https://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:

From the upstream release notes:  Botan 1.10.13 has been released backporting
some side channel protections for ECDSA signatures (CVE-2016-2849) and PKCS #1
RSA decryption (CVE-2015-7827).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1311989 - CVE-2015-7827 botan: PKCS #1 decoding not in constant time
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311989
  [ 2 ] Bug #1330875 - CVE-2016-2849 CVE-2016-2850 botan: two issues fixed in 1.11.29
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330875
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update botan' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at .

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/security/
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Fedora 24: botan Security Update 2016-a545f81683

May 7, 2016
From the upstream release notes: Botan 1.10.13 has been released backporting some side channel protections for ECDSA signatures (CVE-2016-2849) and PKCS #1 RSA decryption (CVE-2015...

Summary

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.

Update Information:

From the upstream release notes: Botan 1.10.13 has been released backporting some side channel protections for ECDSA signatures (CVE-2016-2849) and PKCS #1 RSA decryption (CVE-2015-7827).

Change Log

References

[ 1 ] Bug #1311989 - CVE-2015-7827 botan: PKCS #1 decoding not in constant time https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311989 [ 2 ] Bug #1330875 - CVE-2016-2849 CVE-2016-2850 botan: two issues fixed in 1.11.29 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330875

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update botan' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Severity
Name : botan
Product : Fedora 24
Version : 1.10.13
Release : 1.fc24
URL : https://botan.randombit.net/
Summary : Crypto library written in C++

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