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gnupg -- attacker who obtains 4640 bits from the RNG can trivially predict the next 160 bits of output

Affected packages
	gnupg1	<	1.4.21
	libgcrypt	<	1.7.3
	linux-c6-libgcrypt	<	1.4.5_4
	linux-c7-libgcrypt	<	1.5.3_1

Details

VuXML ID	e1c71d8d-64d9-11e6-b38a-25a46b33f2ed
Discovery	2016-08-17
Entry	2016-08-18
Modified	2016-11-30

Werner Koch reports:

There was a bug in the mixing functions of Libgcrypt's random number generator: An attacker who obtains 4640 bits from the RNG can trivially predict the next 160 bits of output. This bug exists since 1998 in all GnuPG and Libgcrypt versions.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2016-6313
URL	https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2016q3/000395.html