In Libgcrypt 1.8.4, the C implementation of AES is vulnerable to a flush-and-reload side-channel attack because physical addresses are available to other processes. (The C implementation is used on platforms where an assembly-language implementation is unavailable.) NOTE: the vendor's position is that the issue report cannot be validated because there is no description of an attack
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4
- https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/a4c561aab1014c3630bc88faf6f5246fee16b020 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/daedbbb5541cd8ecda1459d3b843ea4d92788762 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/a4c561aab1014c3630bc88faf6f5246fee16b020 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/daedbbb5541cd8ecda1459d3b843ea4d92788762 Patch, Third Party Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.9 · gnupg, opensuseNVD modified 2026-10-14 07:16
Affected (CPE criteria) 2
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:libgcrypt:1.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 11
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00049.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://dev.gnupg.org/T4541 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/a4c561aab1014c3630bc88faf6f5246fee16b020 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/daedbbb5541cd8ecda1459d3b843ea4d92788762 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00049.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://dev.gnupg.org/T4541 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/a4c561aab1014c3630bc88faf6f5246fee16b020 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/daedbbb5541cd8ecda1459d3b843ea4d92788762 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html