Serious bug discovered in widely used cryptographic software

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GnuPG users urged to install latest upgrade immediately

Version 1.9.0 of Libgcrypt, GnuPG's cryptographic library, is impacted by a serious remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target ma...

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