# CVE-2015-0837: The mpi\_powm function in Libgcrypt before 1.6.3 and GnuPG before 1.4.19 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging timin

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-11-29 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- GNU Libgcrypt: before 1.6.3
- GNU GnuPG: before 1.4.19

## Description

The mpi_powm function in Libgcrypt before 1.6.3 and GnuPG before 1.4.19 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging timing differences when accessing a pre-computed table during modular exponentiation, related to a "Last-Level Cache Side-Channel Attack."

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on GNU Libgcrypt, GNU GnuPG, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3184
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3185
- https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2015q1/000363.html
- https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2015q1/000364.html
- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7163050

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