Advisories » MGASA-2013-0239

Updated gnupg package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 03 Aug 2013
Modification date: 03 Aug 2013
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 2 , 3
CVE: CVE-2013-4242

Description

Yarom and Falkner discovered that RSA secret keys in applications
using GnuPG 1.x, and using the libgcrypt library, could be leaked via a
side channel attack, where a malicious local user could obtain private
key information from another user on the system (CVE-2013-4242).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10850
• http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2013q3/000329.html
• http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2013q3/000330.html
• http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/448
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2730
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2731
• http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/advisory/MDVSA-2013:205/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4242

SRPMS

3/core

• gnupg-1.4.14-1.mga3
• libgcrypt-1.5.3-1.mga3

2/core

• gnupg-1.4.12-1.2.mga2
• libgcrypt-1.5.0-2.1.mga2