MGASA-2016-0011

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    MGASA-2016-0011

    Published: 12 Jan 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-1494

    Summary: Updated python-rsa packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: A signature forgery vulnerability in python-rsa allows an attacker to fake signatures for arbitrary messages for any key with a low exponent "e", such as the common value of 3 (CVE-2016-1494).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0011.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17451, https://blog.filippo.io/bleichenbacher-06-signature-forgery-in-python-rsa/, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/05/3

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-rsa

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/python-rsa?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.1.4-6.1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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