VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-7511

low
Published 2016-04-19 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
2.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.0

Description

Libgcrypt before 1.6.5 does not properly perform elliptic-point curve multiplication during decryption, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to extract ECDH keys by measuring electromagnetic emanations.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
23%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.6.5-2
debian debianbullseyefixed1.6.5-2
debian debianforkyfixed1.6.5-2
debian debiansidfixed1.6.5-2
debian debiantrixiefixed1.6.5-2
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnupglibgcrypt{"endIncluding":"1.6.4"}

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.