Mageia alert MGASA-2020-0438 (python-cryptography)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2020-0438: Updated python-cryptography packages fix security vulnerability
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Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:52:45 +0100
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Article
MGASA-2020-0438 - Updated python-cryptography packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 23 Nov 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0438.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2020-25659

Description:
Hubert Kario discovered that python-cryptography incorrectly handled certain
decryption. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive
information (CVE-2020-25659).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27567
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4613-1
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-2...

SRPMS:
- 7/core/python-cryptography-2.6.1-2.mga7