liboqs-devel-0.14.0-1.1 on GA media (moderate)

liboqs-devel-0.14.0-1.1 on GA media Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2025:15339-1 Rating: moderate Cross-References: CVE-2025-52473 CVSS scores: CVE-2025-52473 SUSE : 5.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVE-2025-52473 SUSE : 5.9...

CVE-2025-52473

liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. Multiple secret-dependent branches have been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism when it is compiled with Clang for optimization levels...

CVE-2025-52473

CVE-2025-52473 affects the liboqs HQC KEM reference implementation. When compiled with Clang at optimization levels above -O0, the code contains secret-dependent branches that enable a proof-of-concept local attack to recover the entire secret key. The vulnerability is fixed in version 0.14.0. Im...