Information Exposure Affecting gnupg package, versions [,1.4.15)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.44% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNUPG-2336141
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-6313  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gnupg to version 1.4.15 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The mixing functions in the random number generator in Libgcrypt before 1.5.6, 1.6.x before 1.6.6, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 and GnuPG before 1.4.21 make it easier for attackers to obtain the values of 160 bits by leveraging knowledge of the previous 4640 bits.

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