Debian-LTS alert DLA-175-1 (gnupg)

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Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> 
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debian-lts-announce@lists.debian.org 
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[SECURITY] [DLA 175-1] gnupg security update 
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Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:35:28 +0100
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<20150317153528.GA13856@home.ouaza.com>
Package        : gnupg
Version        : 1.4.10-4+squeeze7
CVE ID         : CVE-2014-3591 CVE-2015-0837 CVE-2015-1606
Debian Bug     : 778652

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard:

CVE-2014-3591

    The Elgamal decryption routine was susceptible to a side-channel
    attack discovered by researchers of Tel Aviv University. Ciphertext
    blinding was enabled to counteract it. Note that this may have a quite
    noticeable impact on Elgamal decryption performance.

CVE-2015-0837

    The modular exponentiation routine mpi_powm() was susceptible to a
    side-channel attack caused by data-dependent timing variations when
    accessing its internal pre-computed table.

CVE-2015-1606

    The keyring parsing code did not properly reject certain packet types
    not belonging in a keyring, which caused an access to memory already
    freed. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service
    (crash) via crafted keyring files.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), those problems have been fixed in
version 1.4.10-4+squeeze7.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.4.12-7+deb7u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg packages.

-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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