USN-2554-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3591)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2015-04-01 13:23 – Updated: 2026-02-10 04:40 – Source website
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Summary
gnupg, gnupg2 vulnerabilities
Details

Daniel Genkin, Lev Pachmanov, Itamar Pipman, and Eran Tromer discovered that GnuPG was susceptible to an attack via physical side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys. (CVE-2014-3591)

Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer discovered that GnuPG was susceptible to an attack via physical side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys. (CVE-2015-0837)

Hanno Böck discovered that GnuPG incorrectly handled certain malformed keyrings. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a malformed keyring, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause GnuPG to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-1606, CVE-2015-1607)

In addition, this update improves GnuPG security by validating that the keys returned by keyservers match those requested.

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  "modified": "2026-02-10T04:40:53Z",
  "published": "2015-04-01T13:23:13Z",
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