vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9243: py-cryptography HKDF might return an empty byte-string
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Mar 27, 2017 | Aug 30, 2017 | Oct 30, 2017 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 27, 2017
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Oct 30, 2017
Description
HKDF in cryptography before 1.5.2 returns an empty byte-string if used with a length less than algorithm.digest_size.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-py-cryptography
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