| Description: | 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.
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