Mageia alert MGASA-2021-0129 (python-cryptography)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2021-0129: Updated python-cryptography package fixes a security vulnerability
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Fri, 12 Mar 2021 02:27:04 +0100
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Article
MGASA-2021-0129 - Updated python-cryptography package fixes a security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 Mar 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0129.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 8
CVE: CVE-2020-36242

Description:
In the cryptography package before 3.3.2 for Python, certain sequences of
update calls to symmetrically encrypt multi-GB values could result in an
integer overflow and buffer overflow (CVE-2020-36242).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28384
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-3...

SRPMS:
- 8/core/python-cryptography-3.3.1-1.1.mga8