[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libgcrypt-1.5.3-1.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-13671
2013-07-26 21:40:15
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Name        : libgcrypt
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.5.3
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://www.gnupg.org/
Summary     : A general-purpose cryptography library
Description :
Libgcrypt is a general purpose crypto library based on the code used
in GNU Privacy Guard.  This is a development version.

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Update Information:

Minor update from upstream fixing a moderate impact security issue.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jul 26 2013 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.5.3-1
- new upstream version fixing cache side-channel attack on RSA private keys
* Mon Dec  3 2012 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.5.0-8
- fix multilib conflict in libgcrypt-config
- fix minor memory leaks and other bugs found by Coverity scan
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #988589 - CVE-2013-4242 GnuPG susceptible to Yarom/Falkner flush+reload cache side-channel attack
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988589
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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