CVE-2011-2683

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Oct 23, 2017
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jul 11, 2011

Description

reseed seeds random numbers from an insecure HTTP request to random.org during installation, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a man-in-the-middle attack.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

[oss-security] 20140208 Fwd: Old CVE ids, public, but stillmailing-list
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/reseed/+bug/804594
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/06/8

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