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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-773-1 python-crypto -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

01 Jan 2017

Affected Packages:

python-crypto

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 849495.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-7459.

More information:

It was discovered that there was a vulnerability in python-crypto, a library of cryptographic algorithms and protocols for Python. Calling AES.new with an invalid parameter could crash the Python interpreter:

https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/issues/176

For Debian 7 Wheezy, this issue has been fixed in python-crypto version 2.6-4+deb7u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-crypto packages.