SECURITY: Fedora 35 Update: botan2-2.18.2-1.fc35
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-14b0d97496
2021-11-12 00:37:35.342470
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Name : botan2
Product : Fedora 35
Version : 2.18.2
Release : 1.fc35
URL : https://botan.randombit.net/
Summary : Crypto and TLS for C++11
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. This is the current stable release branch 2.x
of Botan.
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Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2021-40529
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Nov 1 2021 Benjamin Kircher - 2.18.2-1
- Update to 2.18.2
* Sun Aug 1 2021 Benjamin Kircher - 2.18.1-1
- Update to 2.18.1
- Fix a FTBFS (#1987388)
* Wed Jul 21 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.18.0-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #2002825 - CVE-2021-40529 botan: ElGamal implementation allows plaintext recovery
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2002825
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-14b0d97496' 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
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/keys
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A botan2 security update has been released for Fedora 35.
