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Debian: DSA-3073-1 Low: Elgamal Encryption Side-Channel Attack

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Calendar Grey November 16, 2014
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Enhance your libgcrypt11 libraries: The advisory DSA-3073-1 concerns vulnerabilities in Elgamal encryption methods.
Daniel Genkin, Itamar Pipman and Eran Tromer discovered that Elgamal encryption subkeys in applications using the libgcrypt11 library, for example GnuPG 2.x, could be leaked via a ...

Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.5.0-5+deb7u2.

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: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: libgcrypt11
CVE ID: CVE-2014-5270

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