Debian: DSA-3959-1: libgcrypt20 security update

Date 29 Aug 2017

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

Daniel Genkin, Luke Valenta and Yuval Yarom discovered that Libgcrypt is prone to a local side-channel attack against the ECDH encryption with Curve25519, allowing recovery of the private key.


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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3959-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                     Salvatore Bonaccorso
August 29, 2017                       https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : libgcrypt20
CVE ID         : CVE-2017-0379
Debian Bug     : 873383

Daniel Genkin, Luke Valenta and Yuval Yarom discovered that Libgcrypt
is prone to a local side-channel attack against the ECDH encryption with
Curve25519, allowing recovery of the private key.

See https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/806 for details.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.7.6-2+deb9u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.7.9-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgcrypt20 packages.

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these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
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