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Mageia 8 - MGASA-2021-0446 Critical: Libgcrypt Plaintext Threat

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia issues vital libgcrypt patch addressing plaintext leakage flaw revealed by encryption libraries.
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: The ElGamal implementation in Libgcrypt before 1.9.4 allows plaintext recovery because, during interaction between two cryptogra...

Summary

The updated packages fix a security vulnerability:
The ElGamal implementation in Libgcrypt before 1.9.4 allows plaintext recovery because, during interaction between two cryptographic libraries, a certain dangerous combination of the prime defined by the receiver's public key, the generator defined by the receiver's public key, and the sender's ephemeral exponents can lead to a cross-configuration attack against OpenPGP (CVE-2021-40528).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29467

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5080-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40528

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/libgcrypt-1.8.7-1.2.mga8

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Publication date: 29 Sep 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0446.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-40528

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