[SECURITY] [DSA 4233-1] bouncycastle security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-4233-1 [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
June 22, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : bouncycastle
CVE ID : CVE-2018-1000180

It was discovered that the low-level interface to the RSA key pair
generator of Bouncy Castle (a Java implementation of cryptographic
algorithms) could perform less Miller-Rabin primality tests than
expected.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.56-1+deb9u2.

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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