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

0 Unknown 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_name":  "libgcrypt11",
            "binary_version":  "1.5.3-2ubuntu4.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

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

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2339-2.json"