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HistoryMay 18, 2021 - 5:38 a.m.

Moderate: python-cryptography security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2021-05-1805:38:36
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python-cryptography
upgrade
security fixes
enhancements
pyca
cryptographic primitives
recipes
rsa decryption
integer overflow
buffer overflows
cvss score
almalinux release notes

EPSS

0.008

Percentile

82.3%

The python-cryptography packages contain a Python Cryptographic Authority’s (PyCA’s) cryptography library, which provides cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: python-cryptography (3.2.1). (BZ#1873581, BZ#1891947)

Security Fix(es):

  • python-cryptography: bleichenbacher timing oracle attack against RSA decryption (CVE-2020-25659)

  • python-cryptography: certain sequences of update() calls when symmetrically encrypting very large payloads could result in an integer overflow and lead to buffer overflows (CVE-2020-36242)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
almalinux8x86_64python3-cryptography< 3.2.1-4.el8python3-cryptography-3.2.1-4.el8.x86_64.rpm