cipher/elgamal.c in Libgcrypt through 1.8.2, when used to encrypt messages directly, improperly encodes plaintexts, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading ciphertext data (i.e., it does not have semantic security in face of a ciphertext-only attack). The Decisional Diffie-Hellman (DDH) assumption does not hold for Libgcrypt's ElGamal implementation.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-02-07T23:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T06:17:15.803Z
Reserved: 2018-02-07T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-6829
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-02-07T23:29:01.703
Modified: 2024-11-21T04:11:15.410
Link: CVE-2018-6829
Redhat