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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-36242: cryptography: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-36242: cryptography: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/07/2021
Created
07/02/2024
Added
07/03/2024
Modified
07/03/2024

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)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-python-cryptography

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