[SECURITY] [DSA 4072-1] bouncycastle security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-4072-1 [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
December 21, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : bouncycastle
CVE ID : CVE-2017-13098

Hanno Boeck, Juraj Somorovsky and Craig Young discovered that the
TLS implementation in Bouncy Castle is vulnerable to an adaptive chosen
ciphertext attack against RSA keys.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.56-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your bouncycastle packages.

For the detailed security status of bouncycastle please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/bouncycastle

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