libgcrypt11, libgcrypt20 vulnerabilities

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-3591   CVE-2015-0837  

Several security issues were fixed in Libgcrypt.

Daniel Genkin, Lev Pachmanov, Itamar Pipman, and Eran Tromer discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to an attack via physical side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys. (CVE-2014-3591)

1 April 2015

libgcrypt11, libgcrypt20 vulnerabilities

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

  • Ubuntu 14.10
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Libgcrypt.

Software Description

  • libgcrypt11 - LGPL Crypto library
  • libgcrypt20 - LGPL Crypto library

Details

Daniel Genkin, Lev Pachmanov, Itamar Pipman, and Eran Tromer discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to an attack via physical side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys. (CVE-2014-3591)

Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to an attack via physical side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys. (CVE-2015-0837)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10
libgcrypt11 - 1.5.4-2ubuntu1.1
libgcrypt20 - 1.6.1-2ubuntu1.14.10.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
libgcrypt11 - 1.5.3-2ubuntu4.2
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
libgcrypt11 - 1.5.0-3ubuntu0.4
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
libgcrypt11 - 1.4.4-5ubuntu2.4

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References