Bug 1043327 (CVE-2013-4576) - CVE-2013-4576 gnupg: RSA secret key recovery via acoustic cryptanalysis
Summary: CVE-2013-4576 gnupg: RSA secret key recovery via acoustic cryptanalysis
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-4576
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1044901 1044903 1044904
Blocks: 1043328
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Reported: 2013-12-16 00:31 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2023-05-12 23:24 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: gnupg 1.4.16
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-01-13 16:41:00 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0016 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: gnupg security update 2014-01-08 23:16:05 UTC

Description Murray McAllister 2013-12-16 00:31:32 UTC 
It was found that GnuPG was vulnerable to side-channel attacks via acoustic cryptanalysis. An attacker in close range to a target system that is decrypting ciphertexts could possibly use this flaw to recover the RSA secret key from that system.

This issue affects GnuPG version 1.4. It does not affect the gnupg2 packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, and Fedora.
Comment 9 Murray McAllister 2013-12-18 05:52:35 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Werner Koch of GnuPG upstream for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Genkin, Shamir, and Tromer as the original reporters.
Comment 11 Vincent Danen 2013-12-18 19:45:23 UTC 
External References:

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2013q4/000337.html
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/
Comment 12 Vincent Danen 2013-12-18 20:10:23 UTC 
This is fixed in upstream 1.4.16.
Comment 14 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-12-19 08:37:09 UTC 
Created gnupg tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1044904]
Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2013-12-30 05:00:45 UTC 
gnupg-1.4.16-2.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2014-01-08 18:18:33 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:0016 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0016.html
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