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Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-0477 (gnupg)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: gnupg-1.4.13-2.fc16
Date:  Sun, 20 Jan 2013 03:17:09 +0000
Message-ID:  <20130120031708.E221C21C63@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-0477 2013-01-09 08:17:21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : gnupg Product : Fedora 16 Version : 1.4.13 Release : 2.fc16 URL : http://www.gnupg.org/ Summary : A GNU utility for secure communication and data storage Description : GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is a GNU utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures. GnuPG has advanced key management capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't use any patented algorithm, it is not compatible with any version of PGP2 (PGP2.x uses only IDEA for symmetric-key encryption, which is patented worldwide). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: fix build on big endian arches, IDEA was buggy New upstream with CVE fix. New upstream with CVE fix. New upstream with CVE fix. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Jan 7 2013 Dan HorĂ¡k <dan[at]danny.cz> 1.4.13-2 - fix build on big-endian arches (gnupg bug #1461) * Wed Jan 2 2013 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> 1.4.13-1 - New upstream v1.4.13 fixes for CVE-2012-6085 (#891142) * Mon Jan 30 2012 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> - 1.4.12-1 - New upstream v1.4.12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #891142 - CVE-2012-6085 GnuPG: read_block() corrupt key input validation https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891142 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gnupg' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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