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CVE-2021-40530
Published: Sep 6, 2021
Modified: Aug 4, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
The ElGamal implementation in Crypto++ through 8.5 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 |
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/923
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FEDORA-2021-8b14da0538
vendor-advisory
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FEDORA-2021-a381a721a9
vendor-advisory
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FEDORA-2021-6788250ea4
vendor-advisory
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