mozilla -- Speculative execution side-channel attack

Mozilla Foundation reports: Jann Horn of Google Project Zero Security reported that speculative execution performed by modern CPUs could leak information through a timing side-channel attack. Microsoft Vulnerability Research extended this attack to browser JavaScript engines and demonstrated that...

CVE-2017-5753

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis...

GLSA-201710-14 : WebKitGTK+: Multiple Vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201710-14 WebKitGTK+: Multiple Vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in WebkitGTK+. Please review the references below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code, cause a Denial of...

Debian DLA-1125-1 : botan1.10 security update

CVE-2017-14737 Fix of cache-based side channel attack, which could recover information about RSA secret keys. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.10.5-1+deb7u4. We recommend that you upgrade your botan1.10 packages. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1125-1] botan1.10 security update

Package : botan1.10 Version : 1.10.5-1+deb7u4 CVE ID : CVE-2017-14737 CVE-2017-14737 Fix of cache-based side channel attack, which could recover information about RSA secret keys. For Debian 7 "Wheezy", these problems have been fixed in version 1.10.5-1+deb7u4. We recommend that you upgrade your...

[slackware-security] libgcrypt

New libgcrypt packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libgcrypt-1.7.9-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Mitigate a local side-channel attack on Curve25519 dubbed "May the Fourth be With...

[ASA-201709-13] libgcrypt: private key recovery

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201709-13 ========================================== Severity: Medium Date : 2017-09-18 CVE-ID : CVE-2017-0379 Package : libgcrypt Type : private key recovery Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-402 Summary ======= The package libgcrypt before...

MGASA-2017-0334 Updated libgcrypt packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that libgcrypt is prone to a local side-channel attack against the ECDH encryption with Curve25519, allowing recovery of the private key...

Input validation

The 1 Htpasswd authentication source in the authcrypt module and 2 SimpleSAMLSession class in SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.11 and earlier allow remote attackers to conduct timing side-channel attacks by leveraging use of the standard comparison operator to compare secret material against user input...

CVE-2017-12872

CVE-2017-12872 affects SimpleSAMLphp (

[SECURITY] [DSA 3960-1] gnupg security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3960-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso September 01, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3960-1] gnupg security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3960-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso September 01, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1080-1] gnupg security update

Package : gnupg Version : 1.4.12-7+deb7u9 CVE ID : CVE-2017-7526 Daniel J. Bernstein, Joachim Breitner, Daniel Genkin, Leon Groot Bruinderink, Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange, Christine van Vredendaal and Yuval Yarom discovered that gnupg is prone to a local side-channel attack allowing full key...

Design/Logic Flaw

Libgcrypt before 1.8.1 does not properly consider Curve25519 side-channel attacks, which makes it easier for attackers to discover a secret key, related to cipher/ecc.c and mpi/ec.c...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3959-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

libgcrypt -- side-channel attack vulnerability

GnuPG reports: Mitigate a local side-channel attack on Curve25519 dubbed "May the Fourth Be With You"...

MGASA-2017-0277 Updated jetty packages fix security vulnerability

Jetty is prone to a timing channel attack in util/security/Password.java, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by observing elapsed times before rejection of incorrect passwords CVE-2017-9735...

Updated jetty packages fix security vulnerability

Jetty is prone to a timing channel attack in util/security/Password.java, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by observing elapsed times before rejection of incorrect passwords CVE-2017-9735...

Updated gnupg packages fix security vulnerability

Daniel J. Bernstein, Joachim Breitner, Daniel Genkin, Leon Groot Bruinderink, Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange, Christine van Vredendaal, and Yuval Yarom discovered that GnuPG was susceptible to an attack via side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to recover RSA private keys CVE-2017-75...

[slackware-security] gnupg

New gnupg packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.22-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Mitigate a flush+reload side-channel attack on RSA secret...