The fix causes a regression. Reported: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2026-February/036218.html

This is not 2.5-only.

CVE-2026-24882 has been assigned to this issue.

This is a security update

I have this fix committed to my working directory:

We have no CVE yet. However, CVE is also a good tag for security bugs,

This bug is CVE-2022-47629

Fixed Gpg4win version: https://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/gpg4win-announce/2022/000098.html

As usual see https://gnupg.org/download for links to the latest packages. For Gpg4win see https://gpg4win.org

As 2.3.7 was released on the 11th of July, see https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2022q3/000474.html
I guess that this issue should be closed and some issues moved to one with 2.3.8.

Updated the copy on our mirror as welll as the gpg4win and swdb packages files.

The fix is from 2018 but was not picked up widely; see
https://github.com/madler/zlib/commit/5c44459c3b28a9bd3283aaceab7c615f8020c531

SWDB updated - thus the latest zlib will be part of the next Windows build.

All 4 CVEs are findings related to standard conforming compiler optimizations which OTOH break long standing assumptions on C coding. “Let us show that our compiler produces the fastes code ever and ignore any assumptions coders had made over the last 50 year”.

Thanks for the clarification!

The problem of (2), is local side-channel attacks to ElGamal encryption.
We evaluated the impact, mainly for the use case of GnuPG; ElGamal keys are not that popular any more. When such an attack is possible, easier attacks would be possible.

The paper addresses two issues.
(1) https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/07/20/insecurity-elgamal-pt1
(2) https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/09/06/insecurity-elgamal-pt2

I looks like the "cipher: Hardening ElGamal by introducing exponent blinding too." commit [1] was never applied to 1.8.x. Is that intentional? If so, is there a specific reasoning that it's not needed in 1.8.x? Thanks!