RLSA-2021:1608

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    RLSA-2021:1608

    Published: 18 May 2021Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Moderate: python-cryptography security, bug fix, and enhancement update

    Details: The python-cryptography packages contain a Python Cryptographic Authority's (PyCA's) cryptography library, which provides cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: python-cryptography (3.2.1). (BZ#1873581, BZ#1891947) Security Fix(es): * python-cryptography: bleichenbacher timing oracle attack against RSA decryption (CVE-2020-25659) * python-cryptography: certain sequences of update() calls when symmetrically encrypting very large payloads could result in an integer overflow and lead to buffer overflows (CVE-2020-36242) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-cryptography

    Purl: pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/python-cryptography?distro=rocky-linux-8-4-legacy&epoch=0

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0:3.2.1-4.el8

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Integrity
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    RLSA-2021:1608 | CVE-DB