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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-40530
The ElGamal implementation in Crypto++ through 8.5 allows plaintext recovery because, during interaction between two cryptographic libraries, a certai...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
The ElGamal implementation in Crypto++ through 8.5 allows plaintext recovery because, during interaction between two cryptographic libraries, a certain dangerous combination of the prime defined by the receiver's public key, the generator defined by the receiver's public key, and the sender's ephemeral exponents can lead to a cross-configuration attack against OpenPGP.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
libcrypto++
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.6.0-1"}]}]
Debian:13
libcrypto++
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.6.0-1"}]}]
Debian:14
libcrypto++
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.6.0-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org