Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for pycrypto. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Gentoo update for pycrypto
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34199
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34199/
DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for pycrypto. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable
system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
"block_init()" function in src/ARC2.c when processing key data. This
can be exploited to caused a buffer overflow by initializing ARC2
with a key longer than 128 bytes.
SOLUTION:
Update to version "dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r8" or later.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
GLSA-200903-11:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200903-11.xml
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