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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-0379: libgcrypt Missing input validation for X25519 curve

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-0379: libgcrypt Missing input validation for X25519 curve

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/21/2017
Modified
10/23/2023

Description

Libgcrypt before 1.8.1 does not properly consider Curve25519 side-channel attacks, which makes it easier for attackers to discover a secret key, related to cipher/ecc.c and mpi/ec.c.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libgcrypt

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