vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3138-1 (CVE-2016-9243): python-cryptography vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Nov 28, 2016
Added
Nov 28, 2016
Modified
May 5, 2025

Description

Markus Döring discovered that python-cryptography incorrectly handled
certain HKDF lengths. This could result in python-cryptography returning an
empty string instead of the expected derived key.

Solution(s)

ubuntu-upgrade-python-cryptographyubuntu-upgrade-python3-cryptography
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