CVE-2015-0837
mediumpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.020 · 80 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
The mpi_powm function in Libgcrypt before 1.6.3 and GnuPG before 1.4.19 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging timing differences when accessing a pre-computed table during modular exponentiation, related to a "Last-Level Cache Side-Channel Attack."
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affected products (6)
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references (17)
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- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7163050cnnvd
- https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2015q1/000363.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2015q1/000364.htmlcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0837cnnvd
- https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3184cnnvd
- https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3185cnnvd
- https://www.gnupg.org/software/libgcryptPatchcnnvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3184enisa_euvd
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