Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libgcrypt20  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1710-LIBGCRYPT20-615193
  • published11 Jun 2017
  • disclosed11 Jun 2017

Introduced: 11 Jun 2017

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libgcrypt20 package and not the libgcrypt20 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.