debian · CVE-2018-6594

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:58:57 GMT

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CVE-2018-6594 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (pycryptodome), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

lib/Crypto/PublicKey/ElGamal.py in PyCrypto through 2.6.1 generates weak ElGamal key parameters, 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 PyCrypto's ElGamal implementation.

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