vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2019-12904: Libgcrypt: physical addresses being available to other processes leads to a flush-and-reload side-channel attack
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Jun 20, 2019 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 9, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jun 20, 2019
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025
Description
In Libgcrypt 1.8.4, the C implementation of AES is vulnerable to a flush-and-reload side-channel attack because physical addresses are available to other processes. (The C implementation is used on platforms where an assembly-language implementation is unavailable.) NOTE: the vendor's position is that the issue report cannot be validated because there is no description of an attack
Solution
no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
References
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