USN-4236-2

It was discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to a ECDSA timing attack. An attacker could possibly use this attack to recover sensitive information.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / libgcrypt20

Package

Name: libgcrypt20
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libgcrypt20@1.6.5-2ubuntu0.6?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.6.5-2ubuntu0.6

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.3-2ubuntu1

1.6.4-3

1.6.4-4

1.6.4-5

1.6.5-2

1.6.5-2ubuntu0.2

1.6.5-2ubuntu0.3

1.6.5-2ubuntu0.4

1.6.5-2ubuntu0.5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libgcrypt11-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.5.4-3+really1.6.5-2ubuntu0.6"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgcrypt20",
            "binary_version": "1.6.5-2ubuntu0.6"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgcrypt20-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.6.5-2ubuntu0.6"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}