CVE-2021-33560

Description

Libgcrypt before 1.8.8 and 1.9.x before 1.9.3 mishandles ElGamal encryption because it lacks exponent blinding to address a side-channel attack against mpi_powm, and the window size is not chosen appropriately. This, for example, affects use of ElGamal in OpenPGP.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-13

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R7OAPCUGPF3VLA7QAJUQSL255D4ITVTL/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BKKTOIGFW2SGN3DO2UHHVZ7MJSYN4AAB/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00021.html

https://dev.gnupg.org/rCe8b7f10be275bcedb5fc05ed4837a89bfd605c61

https://dev.gnupg.org/T5466

https://dev.gnupg.org/T5328

https://dev.gnupg.org/T5305

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3