oss-security - CVE request: libgcrypt, ELGAMAL side-channel attack

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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:50:13 +1000
From: Murray McAllister <mmcallis@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE request: libgcrypt, ELGAMAL side-channel attack

Hi,

libgcrypt older than 1.6.0, and older than 1.5.4, are vulnerable to a 
ELGAMAL side-channel attack:

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q3/000352.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/security-team/2014-August/000055.html

(This may be similar sort of issue to CVE-2013-4242.)

Can a CVE please be a assigned if one has not been already?

Thanks,

--
Murray McAllister / Red Hat Product Security

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988589
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128531

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