Information Exposure Affecting gnupg package, versions <1.4.14-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-GNUPG-340567
  • published19 Aug 2013
  • disclosed19 Aug 2013

Introduced: 19 Aug 2013

CVE-2013-4242  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 gnupg to version 1.4.14-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnupg package and not the gnupg package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

GnuPG before 1.4.14, and Libgcrypt before 1.5.3 as used in GnuPG 2.0.x and possibly other products, allows local users to obtain private RSA keys via a cache side-channel attack involving the L3 cache, aka Flush+Reload.

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