Information Exposure Affecting libgcrypt package, versions <1.7.8-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE35-LIBGCRYPT-467951
  • published22 Sept 2019
  • disclosed22 Sept 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Sep 2019

CVE-2017-9526  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.5 libgcrypt to version 1.7.8-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libgcrypt package and not the libgcrypt package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Libgcrypt before 1.7.7, an attacker who learns the EdDSA session key (from side-channel observation during the signing process) can easily recover the long-term secret key. 1.7.7 makes a cipher/ecc-eddsa.c change to store this session key in secure memory, to ensure that constant-time point operations are used in the MPI library.