Executive Summary

Summary
Title GnuPG: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201606-04 First vendor Publication 2016-06-05
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2016-06-05
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

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 :
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GnuPG and libgcrypt, the worst of which may allow a local attacker to obtain confidential key information.

Background

The GNU Privacy Guard, GnuPG, is a free replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GnuPG and libgcrypt, please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A local attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition.
Side-channel attacks could be leveraged to obtain key material.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All GnuPG 2 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.26-r3"

All GnuPG 1 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.19"

All libgcrypt users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.6.3-r4"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-3591 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3591
[ 2 ] CVE-2015-0837 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0837

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-04

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201606-04.xml

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Date Informations
2016-06-08 13:25:04
  • Multiple Updates
2016-06-06 00:25:24
  • First insertion