Executive Summary

Summary
Title libgcrypt security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2016:2674 First vendor Publication 2016-11-08
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2016-11-08
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 01

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

Problem Description:

An update for libgcrypt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

3. Description:

The libgcrypt library provides general-purpose implementations of various cryptographic algorithms.

Security Fix(es):

* A design flaw was found in the libgcrypt PRNG (Pseudo-Random Number Generator). An attacker able to obtain the first 580 bytes of the PRNG output could predict the following 20 bytes. (CVE-2016-6313)

Red Hat would like to thank Felix Dörre and Vladimir Klebanov for reporting this issue.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1366105 - CVE-2016-6313 libgcrypt: PRNG output is predictable

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2674.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-200 Information Exposure

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 75
Application 18
Os 3
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-08-17 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2017-0013.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-01 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2016-1081.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-05 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201612-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-b66a0aef08.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-aab0a156ab.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-14 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2016-2674.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-09 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20161108_libgcrypt_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-09 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing a security update.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0156.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-08 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-2674.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-08 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-2674.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-11 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201610-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-03 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1138.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-22 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2345-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-22 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2346-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-16 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2016-744.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-3a0195918f.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-08 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-2b4ecfa79f.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-01 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1042.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-30 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-602.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-29 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-9864953aa3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-24 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-600.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-24 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2016-236-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-24 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2016-236-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-19 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3065-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-19 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3064-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-18 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3649.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-18 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_e1c71d8d64d911e6b38a25a46b33f2ed.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-18 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3650.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-01-05 09:26:25
  • Multiple Updates
2016-11-15 13:25:42
  • Multiple Updates
2016-11-09 13:25:43
  • Multiple Updates
2016-11-08 13:24:50
  • First insertion