From: Niels Möller Date: Sat, 27 May 2023 18:00:08 +0000 (+0200) Subject: NEWS entries for Nettle-3.9.1. X-Git-Tag: nettle_3.9.1_release_20230601~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=65c0053d089178b93bac2827651649750d1724d1;p=thirdparty%2Fnettle.git NEWS entries for Nettle-3.9.1. --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b7b60880..413538c6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,27 @@ +NEWS for the Nettle 3.9.1 release + + This is a bugfix release, fixing a few bugs reported for + Nettle-3.9. The bug in the new OCB code may be exploitable for + denial of service or worse, since triggering it leads to + memory corruption. Upgrading from Nettle-3.9 to the new + version is strongly recommended. + + The new version is intended to be fully source and binary + compatible with Nettle-3.6. The shared library names are + libnettle.so.8.8 and libhogweed.so.6.8, with sonames + libnettle.so.8 and libhogweed.so.6. + + Bug fixes: + + * Fix OCB loop for processing messages of size 272 bytes or + larger. Reported and fixed by Jussi Kivilinna. + + * Fix alignment bug in the new x86_64 non-pclmul assembly + implementation of ghash. Reported by Henrik Grubbström. + + * Fix build-time memory leak in eccdata. Reported by Noah + Watkins. + NEWS for the Nettle 3.9 release This release includes bug fixes, several new features, a few