Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Jun 20, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-12904
CVE-2019-12904
Description
In Libgcrypt 1.8.4, the C implementation of AES is vulnerable to a flush-and-reload side-channel attack because physical addresses are available to other processes. (The C implementation is used on platforms where an assembly-language implementation is unavailable.) NOTE: the vendor's position is that the issue report cannot be validated because there is no description of an attack
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Affected products
8- Libgcrypt/Libgcryptdescription
- osv-coords4 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/libgcrypt&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/libgcrypt&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/libgcrypt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015pkg:rpm/suse/libgcrypt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP1
< 1.8.2-lp150.5.10.1+ 3 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.8.2-lp150.5.10.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.9.4-1.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.8.2-6.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.8.2-8.6.2
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/a4c561aab1014c3630bc88faf6f5246fee16b020nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/daedbbb5541cd8ecda1459d3b843ea4d92788762nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00049.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- dev.gnupg.org/T4541nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3Envd
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