Bug 1198147 – CVE-2015-0837 libgcrypt: last-level cache side-channel attack

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Bug 1198147 - (CVE-2015-0837) CVE-2015-0837 libgcrypt: last-level cache side-channel attack

Summary:	CVE-2015-0837 libgcrypt: last-level cache side-channel attack

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2015-0837

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1198152 1198153 1198154 1198156
Blocks:	1198150
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Reported:	2015-03-03 08:19 EST by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified:	2018-07-18 10:36 EDT (History)
CC List:	16 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	libgcrypt 1.6.3, GnuPG 1.4.19
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-03 08:19:49 EST

Libgcrypt version 1.6.3 [1] and GnuPG version 1.4.19 [2] fix a side-channel attack on data-dependent timing variations in modular exponentiation, which can potentially lead to an information leak.

[1]: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2015q1/000364.html
[2]: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2015q1/000363.html

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-03 08:24:44 EST

Created gnupg tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1198154]

Comment 2 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-03 08:24:47 EST

Created libgcrypt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1198152]

Comment 3 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-03 08:24:50 EST

Created mingw-libgcrypt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1198153]

Comment 4 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-03 08:25:30 EST

Created mingw-libgcrypt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1198156]

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-03-06 01:58:06 EST

gnupg-1.4.19-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2015-03-13 13:01:54 EDT

libgcrypt-1.6.3-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2015-03-13 13:12:54 EDT

gnupg-1.4.19-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2015-03-14 05:16:03 EDT

gnupg-1.4.19-2.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2015-03-18 06:23:50 EDT

libgcrypt-1.6.3-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-06-02 03:14:18 EDT

Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw in the libgcrypt and gnupg2 packages.

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