USN-3689-2: Libgcrypt vulnerability
19 June 2018
Libgcrypt could be made to expose sensitive information.
Releases
Packages
- libgcrypt11 - LGPL Crypto library
Details
USN-3689-1 fixed a vulnerability in Libgcrypt. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
Keegan Ryan discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to a side-channel
attack. A local attacker could possibly use this attack to recover ECDSA
private keys.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 12.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-3692-1: libssl-doc, libssl1.0.0, libssl1.1-udeb, libcrypto1.0.0-udeb, libssl1.0.0-udeb, libssl1.0-dev, libssl1.1, openssl1.0, libssl-dev, libcrypto1.1-udeb, openssl
- USN-3692-2: openssl, libssl1.0.0
- USN-3689-1: libgcrypt20-doc, libgcrypt20-udeb, libgcrypt11-dev, libgcrypt20, libgcrypt11, libgcrypt-mingw-w64-dev, libgcrypt11-doc, libgcrypt11-udeb, libgcrypt20-dev
- USN-3850-1: libnss3-1d, libnss3-nssdb, nss, libnss3-dev, libnss3-tools, libnss3
- USN-3850-2: nss, libnss3