Advisories ยป MGASA-2021-0129

Updated python-cryptography package fixes a security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 Mar 2021
Modification date: 12 Mar 2021
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

SRPMS

8/core