CVE-2013-4242

Published: 29 July 2013

GnuPG before 1.4.14, and Libgcrypt before 1.5.3 as used in GnuPG 2.0.x and possibly other products, allows local users to obtain private RSA keys via a cache side-channel attack involving the L3 cache, aka Flush+Reload.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
gnupg Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	lucid	Released (1.4.10-2ubuntu1.3)
	precise	Released (1.4.11-3ubuntu2.3)
	quantal	Released (1.4.11-3ubuntu4.2)
	raring	Released (1.4.12-7ubuntu1.1)
	upstream	Released (1.4.14-1)
	Patches: vendor: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2730 upstream: http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commit;h=35646689f4b80955ff7dbe1687bf2c479c53421e
libgcrypt11 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	lucid	Released (1.4.4-5ubuntu2.2)
	precise	Released (1.5.0-3ubuntu0.2)
	quantal	Released (1.5.0-3ubuntu1.1)
	raring	Released (1.5.0-3ubuntu2.2)
	upstream	Released (1.5.3-1)
	Patches: vendor: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2731 upstream: http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git;a=commit;h=287bf0e543f244d784cf8b58340bf0ab3c6aba97

References

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717880

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