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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3478-1 libgcrypt11 -- security update

Date Reported:

15 Feb 2016

Affected Packages:

libgcrypt11

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-7511.

More information:

Daniel Genkin, Lev Pachmanov, Itamar Pipman and Eran Tromer discovered that the ECDH secret decryption keys in applications using the libgcrypt11 library could be leaked via a side-channel attack.

See https://www.cs.tau.ac.IL/~tromer/ecdh/ for details.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.0-5+deb7u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgcrypt11 packages.