Updated libcryptopp packages fix security vulnerability
Publication date: 06 Oct 2021Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-40530
Description
The ElGamal implementation in Crypto++ through 8.5 allows plaintext recovery because, during interaction between two cryptographic libraries, a certain dangerous combination of the prime defined by the receiver's public key, the generator defined by the receiver's public key, and the sender's ephemeral exponents can lead to a cross-configuration attack against OpenPGP. (CVE-2021-40530)
References
SRPMS
8/core
- libcryptopp-8.2.0-2.1.mga8