VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-4242

low
Published 2013-08-19 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
1.9

Description

GnuPG before 1.4.14, and Libgcrypt before 1.5.3 as used in GnuPG 2.0.x and possibly other products, allows local users to obtain private RSA keys via a cache side-channel attack involving the L3 cache, aka Flush+Reload.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu10.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu13.04affected
suse suse12.2affected
suse suse12.3affected
debian debian6.0affected
debian debian7.0affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnupggnupg{"endIncluding":"1.4.13"}
gnupggnupg0.0.0
gnupggnupg0.2.15
gnupggnupg0.2.16
gnupggnupg0.2.17
gnupggnupg0.2.18
gnupggnupg0.2.19
gnupggnupg0.3.0
gnupggnupg0.3.1
gnupggnupg0.3.2
gnupggnupg0.3.3
gnupggnupg0.3.4
gnupggnupg0.3.5
gnupggnupg0.4.0
gnupggnupg0.4.1
gnupggnupg0.4.3
gnupggnupg0.4.4
gnupggnupg0.4.5
gnupggnupg0.9.0
gnupggnupg0.9.1
gnupggnupg0.9.2
gnupggnupg0.9.3
gnupggnupg0.9.4
gnupggnupg0.9.5
gnupggnupg0.9.6
gnupggnupg0.9.7
gnupggnupg0.9.8
gnupggnupg0.9.9
gnupggnupg0.9.10
gnupggnupg0.9.11
gnupggnupg1.0.0
gnupggnupg1.0.1
gnupggnupg1.0.2
gnupggnupg1.0.3
gnupggnupg1.0.4
gnupggnupg1.0.5
gnupggnupg1.0.6
gnupggnupg1.0.7
gnupggnupg1.2.0
gnupggnupg1.2.1
gnupggnupg1.2.2
gnupggnupg1.2.3
gnupggnupg1.2.4
gnupggnupg1.2.5
gnupggnupg1.2.6
gnupggnupg1.2.7
gnupggnupg1.3.0
gnupggnupg1.3.1
gnupggnupg1.3.2
gnupggnupg1.3.3
gnupggnupg1.3.4
gnupggnupg1.3.6
gnupggnupg1.3.90
gnupggnupg1.3.91
gnupggnupg1.3.92
gnupggnupg1.3.93
gnupggnupg1.4.0
gnupggnupg1.4.10
gnupggnupg1.4.11
gnupggnupg1.4.12
gnupggnupg2.0.1
gnupggnupg2.0.3
gnupggnupg2.0.4
gnupggnupg2.0.5
gnupggnupg2.0.6
gnupggnupg2.0.7
gnupggnupg2.0.8
gnupggnupg2.0.10
gnupggnupg2.0.11
gnupggnupg2.0.12
gnupggnupg2.0.13
gnupggnupg2.0.14
gnupggnupg2.0.15
gnupggnupg2.0.16
gnupggnupg2.0.17
gnupggnupg2.0.18
gnupggnupg2.0.19
gnupglibgcrypt{"endIncluding":"1.5.2"}
gnupglibgcrypt1.4.0
gnupglibgcrypt1.4.3
gnupglibgcrypt1.4.4
gnupglibgcrypt1.4.5
gnupglibgcrypt1.4.6
gnupglibgcrypt1.5.0
gnupglibgcrypt1.5.1

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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