RHSA-2020:4482 — Security Advisory

An update for libgcrypt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: libgcrypt (1.8.5). (BZ#1764918)

Security Fix(es):

• libgcrypt: ECDSA timing attack allowing private key leak (CVE-2019-13627)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.