RLSA-2021:1608

RLSA-2021:1608 · Moderate: python-cryptography security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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The python-cryptography packages contain a Python Cryptographic Authority's (PyCA's) cryptography library, which provides cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: python-cryptography (3.2.1). (BZ#1873581, BZ#1891947) Security Fix(es): * python-cryptography: bleichenbacher timing oracle attack against RSA decryption (CVE-2020-25659) * python-cryptography: certain sequences of update() calls when symmetrically encrypting very large payloads could result in an integer overflow and lead to buffer overflows (CVE-2020-36242) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

CVSS 8.2 · High · Fix available

Published

2021-05-18T05:38:36Z

Updated

2026-02-04T20:15:13.084307Z

Stack: system

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