usn-3347-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Daniel J. Bernstein, Joachim Breitner, Daniel Genkin, Leon Groot Bruinderink, Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange, Christine van Vredendaal, and Yuval Yarom discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to an attack via side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to recover RSA private keys. (CVE-2017-7526)
It was discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to an attack via side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover EdDSA private keys. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2017-9526)
| URL | Type | |
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{
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"id": "CVE-2017-7526",
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"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
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"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N",
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{
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}
]
}
],
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}
},
"ecosystem_specific": {
"availability": "No subscription required",
"binaries": [
{
"binary_name": "libgcrypt11",
"binary_version": "1.5.3-2ubuntu4.5"
}
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
"name": "libgcrypt11",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/libgcrypt11@1.5.3-2ubuntu4.5?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
},
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},
{
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}
],
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}
],
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"1.5.0-3ubuntu3",
"1.5.3-2ubuntu1",
"1.5.3-2ubuntu4",
"1.5.3-2ubuntu4.1",
"1.5.3-2ubuntu4.2",
"1.5.3-2ubuntu4.3",
"1.5.3-2ubuntu4.4"
]
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"id": "CVE-2017-7526",
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"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
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"type": "Ubuntu"
}
]
},
{
"id": "CVE-2017-9526",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
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{
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}
]
}
],
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS"
}
},
"ecosystem_specific": {
"availability": "No subscription required",
"binaries": [
{
"binary_name": "libgcrypt20",
"binary_version": "1.6.5-2ubuntu0.3"
}
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
"name": "libgcrypt20",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/libgcrypt20@1.6.5-2ubuntu0.3?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
},
"ranges": [
{
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{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.6.5-2ubuntu0.3"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
],
"versions": [
"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"
]
}
],
"aliases": [],
"details": "Daniel J. Bernstein, Joachim Breitner, Daniel Genkin, Leon Groot\nBruinderink, Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange, Christine van Vredendaal, and\nYuval Yarom discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to an attack via\nside channels. A local attacker could use this attack to recover RSA\nprivate keys. (CVE-2017-7526)\n\nIt was discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to an attack via\nside channels. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover\nEdDSA private keys. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu\n16.10 and Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2017-9526)\n",
"id": "USN-3347-1",
"modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:34Z",
"published": "2017-07-03T18:40:30Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3347-1"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7526"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9526"
}
],
"related": [],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"summary": "libgcrypt11, libgcrypt20 vulnerabilities",
"upstream": [
"UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7526",
"UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9526"
]
}
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