gnupg vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary
GnuPG could be made to expose sensitive information.
Software Description
- gnupg - GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Details
Daniel J. Bernstein, Joachim Breitner, Daniel Genkin, Leon Groot Bruinderink, Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange, Christine van Vredendaal, and Yuval Yarom discovered that GnuPG is vulnerable to a cache side-channel attack. A local attacker could use this attack to recover RSA private keys.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- gnupg - 1.4.20-1ubuntu3.3
- gnupg-curl - 1.4.20-1ubuntu3.3
- gpgv - 1.4.20-1ubuntu3.3
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- gnupg - 1.4.16-1ubuntu2.6
- gnupg-curl - 1.4.16-1ubuntu2.6
- gpgv - 1.4.16-1ubuntu2.6
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.