Mageia alert MGASA-2021-0456 (python-rsa)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2021-0456: Updated python-rsa packages fix security vulnerability
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Sat, 02 Oct 2021 20:58:32 +0200
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MGASA-2021-0456 - Updated python-rsa packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 02 Oct 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0456.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 8
CVE: CVE-2020-25658

Description:
It was found that python-rsa is vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing
attacks. An attacker can use this flaw via the RSA decryption API to
decrypt parts of the cipher text encrypted with RSA. (CVE-2020-25658)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29492
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-2...

SRPMS:
- 8/core/python-rsa-4.7.2-1.mga8