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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-0837: GnuPG: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-0837: GnuPG: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/10/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/29/2021

Description

The mpi_powm function in Libgcrypt before 1.6.3 and GnuPG before 1.4.19 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging timing differences when accessing a pre-computed table during modular exponentiation, related to a "Last-Level Cache Side-Channel Attack."

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-crypt-gnupg
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-libgcrypt

References

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