USN-2339-2

Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to an adaptive chosen ciphertext attack via physical side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / libgcrypt11

Package

Name: libgcrypt11
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libgcrypt11@1.5.3-2ubuntu4.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.5.3-2ubuntu4.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.5.0-3ubuntu3

1.5.3-2ubuntu1

1.5.3-2ubuntu4

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1.5.3-2ubuntu4.1",
            "binary_name": "libgcrypt11"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.5.3-2ubuntu4.1",
            "binary_name": "libgcrypt11-dev"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-5270",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}