MGASA-2021-0129

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    MGASA-2021-0129

    Published: 12 Mar 2021Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-36242

    Summary: Updated python-cryptography package fixes a security vulnerability

    Details: 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 (CVE-2020-36242).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0129.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28384, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/L7RGQLK4J5ZQFRLKCHVVG6BKZTUQMG7E/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-cryptography

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/python-cryptography?arch=source&distro=mageia-8

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.3.1-1.1.mga8

    Affected versions

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