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CVE-2013-4242

GnuPG susceptible to Yarom/Falkner flush+reload cache side-channel attack

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

1.9

CVSS 2.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · July 22, 2013

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

GnuPG before 1.4.14, and Libgcrypt before 1.5.3 as used in GnuPG 2.0.x and possibly other products, allows local users to obtain private RSA keys via a cache side-channel attack involving the L3 cache, aka Flush+Reload.

Statement

This issue affects the version of gnupg as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue affects the version of libgcrypt as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More technical details on this flaw are available at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988589#c12

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 1.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CWE not specified