7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-0379

Published: 29/08/2017 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

Libgcrypt prior to 1.8.1 does not properly consider Curve25519 side-channel attacks, which makes it easier for malicious users to discover a secret key, related to cipher/ecc.c and mpi/ec.c.

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gnupg libgcrypt

debian debian linux 9.0

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Debian Bug report logs - #873383 libgcrypt20: CVE-2017-0379: side-channel attack on Curve25519 Package: src:libgcrypt20; Maintainer for src:libgcrypt20 is Debian GnuTLS Maintainers <pkg-gnutls-maint@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 09:51:01 UTC Sev ...
Libgcrypt could be made to expose sensitive information ...
Daniel Genkin, Luke Valenta and Yuval Yarom discovered that Libgcrypt is prone to a local side-channel attack against the ECDH encryption with Curve25519, allowing recovery of the private key See eprintiacrorg/2017/806 for details For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 176-2+deb9u2 For the unsta ...
Libgcrypt before 181 does not properly consider Curve25519 side-channel attacks, which makes it easier for attackers to discover a secret key, related to cipher/eccc and mpi/ecc ...
Libgcrypt before 181 does not properly consider Curve25519 side-channel attacks, which makes it easier for attackers to discover a secret key, related to cipher/eccc and mpi/ecc On multi user systems or on boxes with virtual machines this attack may be used to steal private keys ...