Executive Summary

Summary
Title libgcrypt20 security update
Informations
Name DSA-3959 First vendor Publication 2017-08-29
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2017-08-29
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Daniel Genkin, Luke Valenta and Yuval Yarom discovered that Libgcrypt is prone to a local side-channel attack against the ECDH encryption with Curve25519, allowing recovery of the private key.

See https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/806 for details.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7.6-2+deb9u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7.9-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgcrypt20 packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3959

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-200 Information Exposure

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 18
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-08-17 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2017-0038.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-a9c79eed83.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-11-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-8cd171f540.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-11-08 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-bcdeca9d41.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-19 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2017-261-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3417-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-31 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_22f28bb38d9811e78c37e8e0b747a45a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-30 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3959.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-09-06 09:24:44
  • Multiple Updates
2017-08-31 13:25:21
  • Multiple Updates
2017-08-30 05:23:59
  • Multiple Updates
2017-08-30 00:22:25
  • First insertion