Mageia alert MGASA-2016-0369 (libtomcrypt)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2016-0369: Updated libtomcrypt packages fix security vulnerability 
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Sun, 6 Nov 2016 14:37:46 +0100
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MGASA-2016-0369 - Updated libtomcrypt packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 06 Nov 2016
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0369.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2016-6129

Description:
It was discovered that the implementation of RSA signature verification
in libtomcrypt is vulnerable to the Bleichenbacher signature attack. If
an RSA key with exponent 3 is used it may be possible to forge a PKCS#1
v1.5 signature signed by that key (CVE-2016-6129).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19305
- http://lwn.net/Alerts/699791/
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6129

SRPMS:
- 5/core/libtomcrypt-1.17-7.1.mga5