MGASA-2018-0171

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    MGASA-2018-0171

    Published: 19 Mar 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-6594

    Summary: Updated python-pycrypto packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: The textbook ElGamal implementation is not secure. PyCrypto and some other implementations use the wrong algorithm, which may lead to some information disclosure simply by looking at the encrypted text. For a full description, see https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/issues/253 This update includes a fix for this problem backported from pycryptodome.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0171.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22693, https://github.com/TElgamal/attack-on-pycrypto-elgamal, https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome/issues/90, https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/issues/253

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-pycrypto

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.6.1-6.2.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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