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A cryptopp security update has been released for Fedora 33.



SECURITY: Fedora 33 Update: cryptopp-8.6.0-1.fc33


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-a381a721a9
2021-10-05 00:47:34.430087
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Name : cryptopp
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 8.6.0
Release : 1.fc33
URL :   http://www.cryptopp.com/
Summary : C++ class library of cryptographic schemes
Description :
Crypto++ Library is a free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes.
See   http://www.cryptopp.com/ for a list of supported algorithms.

One purpose of Crypto++ is to act as a repository of public domain
(not copyrighted) source code. Although the library is copyrighted as a
compilation, the individual files in it are in the public domain.

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Update Information:

Update to 8.6.0.
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Sep 26 2021 Vasiliy N. Glazov 8.6.0-1
- Update to 8.6.0
* Wed Jul 21 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 8.4.0-3
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 8.4.0-2
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild
* Sun Jan 3 2021 Vasiliy N. Glazov 8.4.0-1
- Update to 8.4.0
* Wed Dec 30 2020 Vasiliy N. Glazov 8.3.0-1
- Update to 8.3.0
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2002831 - CVE-2021-40530 cryptopp: ElGamal implementation allows plaintext recovery [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2002831
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-a381a721a9' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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