RHSA-2016:2674 — Security Advisory

An update for libgcrypt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The libgcrypt library provides general-purpose implementations of various cryptographic algorithms.

Security Fix(es):

• A design flaw was found in the libgcrypt PRNG (Pseudo-Random Number Generator). An attacker able to obtain the first 580 bytes of the PRNG output could predict the following 20 bytes. (CVE-2016-6313)

Red Hat would like to thank Felix Dörre and Vladimir Klebanov for reporting this issue.