Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-0379  

Libgcrypt before 1.8.1 does not properly consider Curve25519 side-channel attacks, which makes it easier for attackers to discover a secret key, related to cipher/ecc.c and mpi/ec.c. On multi user systems or on boxes with virtual machines this attack may be used to steal private keys.

Severity Medium

Remote No

Type Private key recovery

Description

Libgcrypt before 1.8.1 does not properly consider Curve25519 side-channel attacks, which makes it easier for attackers to discover a secret key, related to cipher/ecc.c and mpi/ec.c. On multi user systems or on boxes with virtual machines this attack may be used to steal private keys.

AVG-403 lib32-libgcrypt 1.8.0-1 1.8.1-1 Medium Fixed

AVG-402 libgcrypt 1.8.0-1 1.8.1-1 Medium Fixed

18 Sep 2017 ASA-201709-14 AVG-403 lib32-libgcrypt Medium private key recovery

18 Sep 2017 ASA-201709-13 AVG-402 libgcrypt Medium private key recovery

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2017q3/000414.html
https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git;a=commitdiff;h=bf76acbf0da6b0f245e491bec12c0f0a1b5be7c9
https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/806