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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202007-62">
  <title>PyCrypto: Weak key generation</title>
  <synopsis>A flaw in PyCrypto allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive
    information.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">pycrypto</product>
  <announced>2020-07-31</announced>
  <revised count="1">2020-07-31</revised>
  <bug>703682</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-python/pycrypto" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <vulnerable range="le">2.6.1-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>PyCrypto is the Python Cryptography Toolkit.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>It was discovered that PyCrypto incorrectly generated ElGamal key
      parameters.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Attackers may be able to obtain sensitive information by reading
      ciphertext data.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>Gentoo has discontinued support for PyCrypto. We recommend that users
      unmerge PyCrypto:
    </p>
    
    <p># emerge --unmerge “dev-python/pycrypto”</p>
    
    <p>NOTE: The Gentoo developer(s) maintaining PyCrypto have discontinued
      support at this time. PyCryptodome is the canonical successor to
      PyCrypto.
    </p>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6594">CVE-2018-6594</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-07-30T01:21:33Z">sam_c</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-07-31T17:10:46Z">sam_c</metadata>
</glsa>