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CVE-2019-12904
In Libgcrypt 1.8.4, the C implementation of AES is vulnerable to a flush-and-reload side-channel attack because physical addresses are available to other proce…
Impact
In Libgcrypt 1.8.4, the C implementation of AES is vulnerable to a flush-and-reload side-channel attack because physical addresses are available to other processes. (The C implementation is used on platforms where an assembly-language implementation is unavailable.) NOTE: the vendor's position is that the issue report cannot be validated because there is no description of an attack
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Gnupg | Libgcrypt | Version 1.8.4 |
| Opensuse | Leap | Version 15.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00049.html
- https://dev.gnupg.org/T4541
- https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/a4c561aab1014c3630bc88faf6f5246fee16b020
- https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/daedbbb5541cd8ecda1459d3b843ea4d92788762
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html