vulnerability

Arch Linux: Private key recovery (CVE-2017-0379)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 29, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

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. On multi user systems or on boxes with virtual machines this attack may be used to steal private keys.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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