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CVE-2016-6313

medium

Description

The mixing functions in the random number generator in Libgcrypt before 1.5.6, 1.6.x before 1.6.6, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 and GnuPG before 1.4.21 make it easier for attackers to obtain the values of 160 bits by leveraging knowledge of the previous 4640 bits.

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3065-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3064-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92527

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3650

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3649

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-01

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-04

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2016q3/000395.html

https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git%3Ba=blob_plain%3Bf=NEWS

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-7242

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036635

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2674.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-12-13

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01349