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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-3489
2015-03-09 04:43:33
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Name : libgcrypt
Product : Fedora 21
Version : 1.6.3
Release : 1.fc21
URL : http://www.gnupg.org/
Summary : A general-purpose cryptography library
Description :
Libgcrypt is a general purpose crypto library based on the code used
in GNU Privacy Guard. This is a development version.

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Update Information:

New upstream release fixing two minor security issues.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Mar 6 2015 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.6.3-1
– new upstream version
* Wed Feb 25 2015 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.6.2-4
– do not initialize secure memory during the selftest (#1195850)
* Sat Feb 21 2015 Till Maas <opensource@till.name> – 1.6.2-3
– Rebuilt for Fedora 23 Change
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_all_packages_with_position-independent_code
* Wed Jan 14 2015 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.6.2-2
– fix buildability of programs using gcrypt.h with -ansi (#1182200)
* Mon Dec 8 2014 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.6.2-1
– new upstream version
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1198145 – CVE-2014-3591 libgcrypt: use ciphertext blinding for Elgamal decryption (new side-channel attack)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198145
[ 2 ] Bug #1198147 – CVE-2015-0837 libgcrypt: last-level cache side-channel attack
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198147
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This update can be installed with the “yum” update program. Use
su -c ‘yum update libgcrypt’ at the command line.
For more information, refer to “Managing Software with yum”,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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