Opened 9 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#8186 closed enhancement (fixed)
libgcrypt-1.7.3
Reported by: | Douglas R. Reno | Owned by: | Douglas R. Reno |
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Priority: | high | Milestone: | 7.10 |
Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description ¶
New minor version (an emergency release).
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2016q3/000395.html
The GnuPG Project is pleased to announce the availability of new Libgcrypt and GnuPG versions to *fix a critical security problem*. Felix Dörre and Vladimir Klebanov from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology found a bug in the mixing functions of Libgcrypt's random number generator: An attacker who obtains 4640 bits from the RNG can trivially predict the next 160 bits of output. This bug exists since 1998 in all GnuPG and Libgcrypt versions. Impact ====== All Libgcrypt and GnuPG versions released before 2016-08-17 are affected on all platforms. A first analysis on the impact of this bug in GnuPG shows that existing RSA keys are not weakened. For DSA and Elgamal keys it is also unlikely that the private key can be predicted from other public information. This needs more research and I would suggest _not to_ overhasty revoke keys.
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I'll knock this out in my next commit. Just finished updating evolution-data-server.