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libgcrypt20 — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2018-0495

Libgcrypt before 1.7.10 and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures that can be mitigated through the use of blinding during the signing process in the _gcry_ecc_ecdsa_sign function in cipher/ecc-ecdsa.c, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.

Products
libgcrypt20
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
1.8.3-1
CVEs
CVE-2018-0495
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 14:28 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-0495

core-osv · Original source

Published 13 Jun 2018, 23:29 UTC

Libgcrypt before 1.7.10 and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures that can be mitigated through the use of blinding during the signing process in the _gcry_ecc_ecdsa_sign function in cipher/ecc-ecdsa.c, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-0495

libgcrypt20

Fixed versions: 1.8.3-1

libgcrypt20

Fixed versions: 1.8.3-1

libgcrypt20

Fixed versions: 1.8.3-1

Complete source record
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