Debian alert: New gnupg packages fix cryptographic weakness in ElGamal signing keys

Posted by dave on Jan 26, 2004 4:24 PM EDT
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"Phong Nguyen identified a severe bug in the way GnuPG creates and uses ElGamal keys for signing. This is a significant security failure which can lead to a compromise of almost all ElGamal keys used for signing."



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- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 429-1 [E-mail:security@debian.org] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman January 26th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Package : gnupg Vulnerability : cryptographic weakness Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Ids : CAN-2003-0971

Phong Nguyen identified a severe bug in the way GnuPG creates and uses ElGamal keys for signing. This is a significant security failure which can lead to a compromise of almost all ElGamal keys used for signing.

This update disables the use of this type of key.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.6-4woody1.

For the unstable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.4-1.

We recommend that you update your gnupg package.

Upgrade Instructions - --------------------

wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:

apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.0.6-4woody1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 577 ba605a24ce1f05d0b56a8365afcfbab7 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.0.6-4woody1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 2651 547a67db2c9b39e9ca372bf163bc8883 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.0.6.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 1941676 7c319a9e5e70ad9bc3bf0d7b5008a508

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.0.6-4woody1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1149782 35d9420faf6571b22109453fa0e707b7

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.0.6-4woody1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 986726 6d5a35f97bfc037667c787eeef818027

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.0.6-4woody1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 966382 e4a2e973cbbde196e1cbddaecfcc1ef8

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.0.6-4woody1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1271170 c449638391c6ce357508c12256170282

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.0.6-4woody1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1058492 a4db862a5e2e6dceada146bddc1fc913

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.0.6-4woody1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 941836 bbbd0cf2a910ab981e8ea31f4bf1efcf

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.0.6-4woody1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1035512 7a16602af5c5f59e2147753864f6dd83

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.0.6-4woody1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1009118 c9fd5e6b0cc08b410214a1172f1434e6

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.0.6-4woody1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1001546 ce633e93e4d2dbe7a279f60dbf9cd132

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.0.6-4woody1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1003476 4ed36f1131cc8b3b472ffc72efd6f3df

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision.

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