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CVE-2021-40529
Published: Sep 6, 2021
Modified: Aug 4, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
The ElGamal implementation in Botan through 2.18.1, as used in Thunderbird and other products, allows plaintext recovery because, during interaction between two cryptographic libraries, a certain dangerous combination of the prime defined by the receiver's public key, the generator defined by the receiver's public key, and the sender's ephemeral exponents can lead to a cross-configuration attack against OpenPGP.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/923
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/2790
x_refsource_MISC
FEDORA-2021-14b0d97496
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
FEDORA-2021-8d51cac49f
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
GLSA-202208-14
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO
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