Issued:

2020-11-03

Updated:

2020-11-03

RHSA-2020:4482 - Moderate: libgcrypt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: libgcrypt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for libgcrypt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The libgcrypt library provides general-purpose implementations of various cryptographic algorithms.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: libgcrypt (1.8.5). (BZ#1764918)

Security Fix(es):

• libgcrypt: ECDSA timing attack allowing private key leak (CVE-2019-13627)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• libgcrypt-devel-1.8.5-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
• libgcrypt-debugsource-1.8.5-4.el8.s390x.rpm
• libgcrypt-1.8.5-4.el8.src.rpm
• libgcrypt-debugsource-1.8.5-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
• libgcrypt-devel-1.8.5-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• libgcrypt-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el8.s390x.rpm
• libgcrypt-debugsource-1.8.5-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
• libgcrypt-devel-1.8.5-4.el8.i686.rpm
• libgcrypt-devel-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• libgcrypt-1.8.5-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
• libgcrypt-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
• libgcrypt-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• libgcrypt-1.8.5-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• libgcrypt-1.8.5-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
• libgcrypt-devel-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
• libgcrypt-devel-1.8.5-4.el8.s390x.rpm
• libgcrypt-devel-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
• libgcrypt-debugsource-1.8.5-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• libgcrypt-1.8.5-4.el8.i686.rpm
• libgcrypt-1.8.5-4.el8.s390x.rpm
• libgcrypt-devel-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el8.i686.rpm
• libgcrypt-debugsource-1.8.5-4.el8.i686.rpm
• libgcrypt-devel-1.8.5-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
• libgcrypt-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el8.i686.rpm
• libgcrypt-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
• libgcrypt-devel-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el8.s390x.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1762741
• This content is not included.BZ - 1762765
• This content is not included.BZ - 1764018

CVEs

• CVE-2019-13627

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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