vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2017-7526: libgcrypt: Use of left-to-right sliding window method allows full RSA key recovery

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 26, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

libgcrypt before version 1.7.8 is vulnerable to a cache side-channel attack resulting into a complete break of RSA-1024 while using the left-to-right method for computing the sliding-window expansion. The same attack is believed to work on RSA-2048 with moderately more computation. This side-channel requires that attacker can run arbitrary software on the hardware where the private RSA key is used.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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