Back Linuxsecurity Fedora 44 perl-Crypt-DSA Important Key Flaw CVE-2026
This update, to the current upstream release, addresses a cryptographic flaw (modulo bias) in key generation that could lead to private key compromise (CVE-2026-14570) .
* Fri Jul 3 2026 Paul Howarth - 1.22-1 - Update to 1.22 - Hardening: Use a fresh, independent CSPRNG witness every round - Security fix: Modulo bias in key generation (CVE-2026-14570); an attack with hundreds of signatures could lead to full private-key compromise; keys should be considered compromised and new keys should be generated * Fri Jun 19 2026 Yaakov Selkowitz - 1.21-2 - Rebuilt for OpenSSL 4.0
* Fri Jul 3 2026 Paul Howarth - 1.22-1 - Update to 1.22 - Hardening: Use a fresh, independent CSPRNG witness every round - Security fix: Modulo bias in key generation (CVE-2026-14570); an attack with hundreds of signatures could lead to full private-key compromise; keys should be considered compromised and new keys should be generated * Fri Jun 19 2026 Yaakov Selkowitz - 1.21-2 - Rebuilt for OpenSSL 4.0
[ 1 ] Bug #2497529 - CVE-2026-14570 perl-Crypt-DSA: Crypt::DSA: Private key recovery due to biased random number generation [fedora-all]
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-fcfc08d46c' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
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