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USN-3689-1: Libgcrypt vulnerability

19 June 2018

Libgcrypt could be made to expose sensitive information.

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Releases

Packages

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.

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Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 17.10
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

Related notices

  • USN-3692-1: libssl1.0.0-udeb, libssl-doc, openssl, openssl1.0, libssl1.0.0, libssl1.1-udeb, libssl1.0-dev, libcrypto1.0.0-udeb, libssl-dev, libcrypto1.1-udeb, libssl1.1
  • USN-3692-2: openssl, libssl1.0.0
  • USN-3689-2: libgcrypt11
  • USN-3850-1: libnss3-dev, libnss3-tools, libnss3-1d, nss, libnss3, libnss3-nssdb
  • USN-3850-2: nss, libnss3