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A rust-aes-gcm security update has been released for Fedora 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: rust-aes-gcm-0.10.3-1.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-98f44d1c4c
2023-10-03 02:21:55.690578
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Name : rust-aes-gcm
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 0.10.3
Release : 1.fc38
URL : https://crates.io/crates/aes-gcm
Summary : Pure Rust implementation of the AES-GCM AEAD Cipher
Description :
Pure Rust implementation of the AES-GCM (Galois/Counter Mode)
Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) Cipher with
optional architecture-specific hardware acceleration.

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Update Information:

- Update the aes-gcm crate to version 0.10.3. Addresses CVE-2023-42811. -
Rebuild dependent packages (firecracker) for aes-gcm v0.10.3.
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-42811
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Sep 24 2023 Fabio Valentini [decathorpe@gmail.com] - 0.10.3-1
- Update to version 0.10.3; Fixes RHBZ#2240136
* Fri Jul 21 2023 Fedora Release Engineering [releng@fedoraproject.org] - 0.10.2-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2240269 - CVE-2023-42811 rust-aes-gcm: aes-gcm: Plaintext exposed in decrypt_in_place_detached even on tag verification failure [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240269
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-98f44d1c4c' 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
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