Upstream information

CVE-2021-40529 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having low severity.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1190244 [NEW]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • Botan >= 2.18.2-1.1
  • Botan-doc >= 2.18.2-1.1
  • libbotan-2-18 >= 2.18.2-1.1
  • libbotan-2-18-32bit >= 2.18.2-1.1
  • libbotan-devel >= 2.18.2-1.1
  • libbotan-devel-32bit >= 2.18.2-1.1
  • python3-botan >= 2.18.2-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA Botan-2.18.2-1.1

Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP2 MozillaThunderbird Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP3 MozillaThunderbird Analysis