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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1931-2 libgcrypt20 -- LTS regression update

Date Reported:

01 Jan 2020

Affected Packages:

libgcrypt20

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-13627.

More information:

It was discovered that the fix to address an ECDSA timing attack in the libgcrypt20 cryptographic library was incomplete.

Thanks to Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com> for the report.

• CVE-2019-13627

  It was discovered that there was a ECDSA timing attack in the libgcrypt20 cryptographic library.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.3-2+deb8u8.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgcrypt20 packages.

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