Debian Security Advisory DSA-2730-1: Critical RSA Key Leak in GnuPG
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July 29, 2013
Yarom and Falkner discovered that RSA secret keys could be leaked via a side channel attack, where a malicious local user could obtain private key information from another user on ...
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Summary
This update fixes this issue for the 1.4 series of GnuPG. GnuPG 2.x is
affected through its use of the libgcrypt11 library, a fix for which
will be published in DSA 2731.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.10-4+squeeze2.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.12-7+deb7u1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.14-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
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Package: gnupg
CVE ID: CVE-2013-4242
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