Debian 9 Stretch DSA-3959-1: Critical Libgcrypt ECDH Attack Fix
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August 29, 2017
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 ...
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Summary
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.
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: libgcrypt20
CVE ID: CVE-2017-0379
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