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USN-2555-1: Libgcrypt vulnerabilities

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USN-2555-1: Libgcrypt vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/01/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/02/2015
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Daniel Genkin, Lev Pachmanov, Itamar Pipman, and Eran Tromer discoveredthat Libgcrypt was susceptible to an attack via physical side channels. Alocal attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys.(CVE-2014-3591) Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer discovered that Libgcrypt wassusceptible to an attack via physical side channels. A local attacker coulduse this attack to possibly recover private keys. (CVE-2015-0837) The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. CVE-2014-3591, CVE-2015-0837

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgcrypt11
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgcrypt20

References

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