Security Information / 2018 / Security Information -- DSA-4231-1 libgcrypt20

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:

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