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A nettle security update has been released for Fedora 34.



SECURITY: Fedora 34 Update: nettle-3.7.2-1.fc34


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-dc225f3f65
2021-03-24 01:46:57.845980
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Name : nettle
Product : Fedora 34
Version : 3.7.2
Release : 1.fc34
URL :   http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
Summary : A low-level cryptographic library
Description :
Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more
or less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages
(C++, Python, Pike, ...), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in
kernel space.

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Update Information:

This updates nettle to the upstream 3.7.2 release, with a security fix in ECDSA
signature verification:   https://lists.lysator.liu.se/pipermail/nettle-
bugs/2021/009458.html
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Mar 21 2021 Daiki Ueno - 3.7.2-1
- Update to nettle 3.7.2
- Merge nettle-3.6-remove-ecc-testsuite.patch to hobble-nettle script
* Tue Mar 9 2021 Daiki Ueno - 3.7.1-1
- Update to nettle 3.7.1
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1941265 - nettle-3.7.2 is available
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941265
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-dc225f3f65' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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