SUSE-SU-2019:1859-1

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SUSE-SU-2019:1859-1

Summary: Security update for libgcrypt

Details: This update for libgcrypt fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2019-12904: The C implementation of AES is vulnerable to a flush-and-reload side-channel attack because physical addresses are available to other processes. (The C implementation is used on platforms where an assembly-language implementation is unavailable.) (bsc#1138939) Other bugfixes: - Don't run full FIPS self-tests from constructor (bsc#1097073) - Skip all the self-tests except for binary integrity when called from the constructor (bsc#1097073) - Enforce the minimal RSA keygen size in fips mode (bsc#1125740) - avoid executing some tests twice. - Fixed a race condition in initialization. - Fixed env-script-interpreter in cavs_driver.pl - Fixed redundant fips tests in some situations causing failure to boot in fips mode. (bsc#1097073) This helps during booting of the system in FIPS mode with insufficient entropy.

References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2019/suse-su-20191859-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1097073, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1125740, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1138939, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12904