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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-36242: Moderate: python-cryptography security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1608)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-36242: Moderate: python-cryptography security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1608)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/07/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/04/2022

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, as demonstrated by the Fernet class.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-python3-cryptography

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