Mageia alert MGASA-2017-0334 (libgcrypt)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2017-0334: Updated libgcrypt packages fix security vulnerability 
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Sun, 10 Sep 2017 14:36:48 +0200
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MGASA-2017-0334 - Updated libgcrypt packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 10 Sep 2017
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0334.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2017-0379

Description:
It was discovered that libgcrypt is prone to a local side-channel attack
against the ECDH encryption with Curve25519, allowing recovery of the
private key.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21640
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-0379
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-0379

SRPMS:
- 6/core/libgcrypt-1.7.8-1.1.mga6