ANNOUNCE: Nettle-3.7.3

[Niels Möller]

I've prepared a new bug-fix release of Nettle, a low-level
cryptographics library, to fix bugs in the RSA decryption functions. The
bugs cause crashes on certain invalid inputs, which could be used
for denial of service attacks on applications using these functions.
More details in NEWS file below.

Upgrading is strongly recommended.

The Nettle home page can be found at
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/, and the manual at
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/nettle.html.

The release can be downloaded from

  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.7.3.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.7.3.tar.gz
  https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-3.7.3.tar.gz

Regards,
/Niels

NEWS for the Nettle 3.7.3 release

        This is bugfix release, fixing bugs that could make the RSA
        decryption functions crash on invalid inputs.

        Upgrading to the new version is strongly recommended. For
        applications that want to support older versions of Nettle,
        the bug can be worked around by adding a check that the RSA
        ciphertext is in the range 0 < ciphertext < n, before
        attempting to decrypt it.

        Thanks to Paul Schaub and Justus Winter for reporting these
        problems.

        The new version is intended to be fully source and binary
        compatible with Nettle-3.6. The shared library names are
        libnettle.so.8.4 and libhogweed.so.6.4, with sonames
        libnettle.so.8 and libhogweed.so.6.

        Bug fixes:

        * Fix crash for zero input to rsa_sec_decrypt and
          rsa_decrypt_tr. Potential denial of service vector.

        * Ensure that all of rsa_decrypt_tr and rsa_sec_decrypt return
          failure for out of range inputs, instead of either crashing,
          or silently reducing input modulo n. Potential denial of
          service vector.

        * Ensure that rsa_decrypt returns failure for out of range
          inputs, instead of silently reducing input modulo n.

        * Ensure that rsa_sec_decrypt returns failure if the message
          size is too large for the given key. Unlike the other bugs,
          this would typically be triggered by invalid local
          configuration, rather than by processing untrusted remote
          data.

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