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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1080-1 gnupg -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

31 Aug 2017

Affected Packages:

gnupg

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-7526.

More information:

Daniel J. Bernstein, Joachim Breitner, Daniel Genkin, Leon Groot Bruinderink, Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange, Christine van Vredendaal and Yuval Yarom discovered that gnupg is prone to a local side-channel attack allowing full key recovery for RSA-1024.

See https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/627 for details.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.12-7+deb7u9.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg packages.

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