Information disclosure in Libgcrypt - CVE-2013-4242
Published: August 20, 2013 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
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.
Affected software
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Slackware Linux
libgcrypt (Alpine package)
gnupg
dev-libs/libgcrypt
libgcrypt
libgpg-error
app-crypt/gnupg
How to mitigate CVE-2013-4242
libgcrypt (Alpine package) - update to 1.5.3-r0
gnupg - update to 1.4.14
dev-libs/libgcrypt - update to 1.5.3
libgcrypt - update to 1.5.3
libgpg-error - update to 1.11
app-crypt/gnupg - update to 2.0.22
External References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717880
- http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/448
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2013q3/000330.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00003.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1457.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54318
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54321
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54332
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54375
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2730
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2731
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/976534
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61464
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1923-1