MGASA-2021-0456

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    MGASA-2021-0456

    Published: 2 Oct 2021Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-25658

    Summary: Updated python-rsa packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: It was found that python-rsa is vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks. An attacker can use this flaw via the RSA decryption API to decrypt parts of the cipher text encrypted with RSA. (CVE-2020-25658)

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0456.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29492, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/2SAF67KDGSOHLVFTRDOHNEAFDRSSYIWA/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-rsa

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.7.2-1.mga8

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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