VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6313

medium
Published 2016-12-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
63%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
16.04 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.4.21-1
sid Fixed 1.4.21-1
forky Fixed 1.4.21-1
bullseye Fixed 1.4.21-1
bookworm Fixed 1.4.21-1
8.0 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnupglibgcrypt{"endIncluding":"1.5.3"}
gnupglibgcrypt1.6.0
gnupglibgcrypt1.6.1
gnupglibgcrypt1.6.2
gnupglibgcrypt1.6.3
gnupglibgcrypt1.6.4
gnupglibgcrypt1.6.5
gnupglibgcrypt1.7.0
gnupglibgcrypt1.7.1
gnupglibgcrypt1.7.2
gnupggnupg{"endIncluding":"1.4.14"}

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.