DSA-4588-1 python-ecdsa -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-14853   CVE-2019-14859  

It was discovered that python-ecdsa, a cryptographic signature library for Python, incorrectly handled certain signatures. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause python-ecdsa to either not warn about incorrect signatures, or generate exceptions resulting in a denial-of-service. For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 0.13-2+deb9u1. For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 0.13-3+deb10u1. We recommend that you upgrade your python-ecdsa packages. For the detailed security status of python-ecdsa please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/python-ecdsa

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4588-1 python-ecdsa -- security update

Date Reported:
17 Dec 2019
Affected Packages:
python-ecdsa
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-14853, CVE-2019-14859.
More information:

It was discovered that python-ecdsa, a cryptographic signature library for Python, incorrectly handled certain signatures. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause python-ecdsa to either not warn about incorrect signatures, or generate exceptions resulting in a denial-of-service.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 0.13-2+deb9u1.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 0.13-3+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-ecdsa packages.

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