[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: py-bcrypt-0.3-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-4424
2013-03-26 23:44:33
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Name        : py-bcrypt
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 0.3
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://code.google.com/p/py-bcrypt/
Summary     : Python bindings for OpenBSD's Blowfish password hashing code
Description :
python-bcrypt is a Python wrapper of OpenBSD's Blowfish password hashing
code, as described in "A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme" by Niels
Provos and David Mazières.

This system hashes passwords using a version of Bruce Schneier's Blowfish
block cipher with modifications designed to raise the cost of off-line
password cracking and frustrate fast hardware implementation. The
computation cost of the algorithm is parametised, so it can be increased
as computers get faster. The intent is to make a compromise of a password
database less likely to result in an attacker gaining knowledge of the
plaintext passwords (e.g. using John the Ripper).

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Update Information:

Fix for CVE-2013-1895: py-bcrypt <0.3 contains a concurrency bug that could result in auth bypass.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Mar 26 2013 Jon Ciesla <limburgher at gmail.com> - 0.3-1
- Latest upstream, fixes CVE-2013-1895: concurrency issue leading to auth bypass
* Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.2-8
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
* Sat Jul 21 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.2-7
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #927510 - CVE-2013-1895 py-bcrypt: concurrency issue leading to auth bypass [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927510
  [ 2 ] Bug #927512 - CVE-2013-1895 py-bcrypt: concurrency issue leading to auth bypass [epel-6]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927512
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update py-bcrypt' at the command line.
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