Information Exposure Affecting gnupg package, versions [,1.4.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNUPG-2336131
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Aug 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Aug 2013

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

How to fix?

Upgrade gnupg to version 1.4.14 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. 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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