Information disclosure in Libgcrypt - CVE-2017-0379

 

Information disclosure in Libgcrypt - CVE-2017-0379

Published: August 30, 2017 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32070
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-0379
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

Libgcrypt before 1.8.1 does not properly consider Curve25519 side-channel attacks, which makes it easier for attackers to discover a secret key, related to cipher/ecc.c and mpi/ec.c.


Affected software

Libgcrypt
Arch Linux
Slackware Linux
Fedora
libgcrypt (Alpine package)
libgcrypt
Oracle Communications WebRTC Session Controller

How to mitigate CVE-2017-0379

Install update from vendor's website.

Libgcrypt - update to 1.8.1
libgcrypt (Alpine package) - update to 1.7.9-r0
libgcrypt - addressed in versions 1.7.9-1.fc25, 1.7.9-1.fc26, 1.8.1-1.fc27
Oracle Communications WebRTC Session Controller - update to 7.2

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