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SUSE Advisory 2025:20538-1 for Moderate RSA Timing Attack CVE-2024-2236

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Calendar Grey August 5, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
A SUSE security patch has been released to mitigate a timing vulnerability found in libgcrypt, classified as moderate severity and recognized as CVE-2024-2236.
* bsc#1221107 Cross-References: * CVE-2024-2236

Summary

## This update for libgcrypt fixes the following issues: * CVE-2024-2236: Fixed timing based side-channel in RSA implementation (bsc#1221107) ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: * SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.1-196=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64) * libgcrypt20-1.10.3-slfo.1.1_2.1 * libgcrypt20-debuginfo-1.10.3-slfo.1.1_2.1 * libgcrypt-debugsource-1.10.3-slfo.1.1_2.1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SuSE security fix timing attack Libgcrypt rsa implementation

References

* bsc#1221107

Cross-

* CVE-2024-2236

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2024-2236 ( SUSE ): 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

* CVE-2024-2236 ( NVD ): 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Micro 6.1

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2236.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221107

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:20538-1
Release Date: 2025-07-31T12:00:30Z
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SuSE security fix timing attack Libgcrypt rsa implementation

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