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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="202007-62">
+ <title>PyCrypto: Weak key generation</title>
+ <synopsis>A flaw in PyCrypto allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive
+ information.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">pycrypto</product>
+ <announced>2020-07-31</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2020-07-31</revised>
+ <bug>703682</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-python/pycrypto" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <vulnerable range="le">2.6.1-r2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>PyCrypto is the Python Cryptography Toolkit.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>It was discovered that PyCrypto incorrectly generated ElGamal key
+ parameters.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>Attackers may be able to obtain sensitive information by reading
+ ciphertext data.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>Gentoo has discontinued support for PyCrypto. We recommend that users
+ unmerge PyCrypto:
+ </p>
+
+ <p># emerge --unmerge “dev-python/pycrypto”</p>
+
+ <p>NOTE: The Gentoo developer(s) maintaining PyCrypto have discontinued
+ support at this time. PyCryptodome is the canonical successor to
+ PyCrypto.
+ </p>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6594">CVE-2018-6594</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-07-30T01:21:33Z">sam_c</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-07-31T17:10:46Z">sam_c</metadata>
+</glsa>