vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-6313: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 13, 2016
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The mixing functions in the random number generator in Libgcrypt before 1.5.6, 1.6.x before 1.6.6, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 and GnuPG before 1.4.21 make it easier for attackers to obtain the values of 160 bits by leveraging knowledge of the previous 4640 bits.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libgcrypt
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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