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python-crypto: insecure key generation

Package(s):python-crypto CVE #(s):CVE-2012-2417
Created:June 4, 2012 Updated:April 10, 2013
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla:

A security flaw was found in the implementation of ElGamal algorithm of python-crypto, a cryptography library for Python language, in the way how random number 'g' was generated.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2012-8392 2012-06-03
Fedora FEDORA-2012-8470 2012-06-03
Fedora FEDORA-2012-8490 2012-06-03
Debian DSA-2502-1 2012-06-24
Gentoo 201206-23 2012-06-24
Ubuntu USN-1484-1 2012-06-28
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:0830-1 2012-07-04
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:117 2012-07-27
Mageia MGASA-2012-0194 2012-08-02
Mandriva MDVSA-2013:120 2013-04-10
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