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Debian DSA-2731-1 Critical: Libgcrypt11 Information Leak

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Calendar Grey July 29, 2013
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-1 reveals a critical patch addressing vulnerabilities in OpenSSL to enhance protection.
Yarom and Falkner discovered that RSA secret keys in applications using the libgcrypt11 library, for example GnuPG 2.x, could be leaked via a side channel attack, where a malicious...
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security advisory information leak debian local attack libgcrypt11

Summary

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.5-2+squeeze1.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.5.0-5+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie) and unstable distribution (sid),
this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgcrypt11 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: libgcrypt11
CVE ID: CVE-2013-4242

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security advisory information leak debian local attack libgcrypt11

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