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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:2157-1 Important ElGamal Side-Channel Risk Fix

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Tackle the crucial side-channel vulnerabilities in libgcrypt through this significant security patch for openSUSE Leap.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for libgcrypt fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-33560: Fixed a side-channel against ElGamal encryption, caused

by missing exponent blinding (bsc#1187212).

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-2157=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

libgcrypt-cavs-1.8.2-8.39.1

libgcrypt-cavs-debuginfo-1.8.2-8.39.1

libgcrypt-debugsource-1.8.2-8.39.1

libgcrypt-devel-1.8.2-8.39.1

libgcrypt-devel-debuginfo-1.8.2-8.39.1

libgcrypt20-1.8.2-8.39.1

libgcrypt20-debuginfo-1.8.2-8.39.1

libgcrypt20-hmac-1.8.2-8.39.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64):

libgcrypt-devel-32bit-1.8.2-8.39.1

libgcrypt-devel-32bit-debuginfo-1.8.2-8.39.1

libgcrypt20-32bit-1.8.2-8.39.1

libgcrypt20-32bit-debuginfo-1.8.2-8.39.1

libgcrypt20-hmac-32bit-1.8.2-8.39.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33560.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187212

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:2157-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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