RHSA-2022:5311 — 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.

Security Fix(es):

• libgcrypt: ElGamal implementation allows plaintext recovery (CVE-2021-40528)

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.