Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4231-1 libgcrypt20 -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 17 Jun 2018
- Affected Packages:
- libgcrypt20
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-0495.
- More information:
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It was discovered that Libgcrypt is prone to a local side-channel attack allowing recovery of ECDSA private keys.
For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7.6-2+deb9u3.
We recommend that you upgrade your libgcrypt20 packages.
For the detailed security status of libgcrypt20 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libgcrypt20