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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3073-1 libgcrypt11 -- security update

Date Reported:

16 Nov 2014

Affected Packages:

libgcrypt11

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-5270.

More information:

Daniel Genkin, Itamar Pipman and Eran Tromer discovered that Elgamal encryption subkeys in applications using the libgcrypt11 library, for example GnuPG 2.x, could be leaked via a side-channel attack.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.0-5+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgcrypt11 packages.