Executive Summary

Summary
Title Libgcrypt vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-4236-3 First vendor Publication 2020-01-28
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2020-01-28
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 : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM - Ubuntu 12.04 ESM

Summary:

Libgcrypt could be made to expose sensitive information.

Software Description: - libgcrypt11: LGPL Crypto library

Details:

USN-4236-1 fixed a vulnerability in Libgcrypt. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to a ECDSA timing attack.
An attacker could possibly use this attack to recover sensitive
information.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
libgcrypt11 1.5.3-2ubuntu4.6+esm1

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM:
libgcrypt11 1.5.0-3ubuntu0.9

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4236-3
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4236-1
CVE-2019-13627

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4236-3

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-203 Information Exposure Through Discrepancy

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 6
Os 2

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Date Informations
2020-01-28 21:18:56
  • First insertion