MGASA-2017-0235

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    MGASA-2017-0235

    Published: 2 Aug 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-7526

    Summary: Updated gnupg packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Daniel J. Bernstein, Joachim Breitner, Daniel Genkin, Leon Groot Bruinderink, Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange, Christine van Vredendaal, and Yuval Yarom discovered that GnuPG was susceptible to an attack via side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to recover RSA private keys (CVE-2017-7526).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0235.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21204, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/06/8, https://www.gnupg.org/, https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3347-1/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gnupg

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/gnupg?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.4.19-1.3.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High