CVE-2011-2686
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 5, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 11, 2011
Description
Ruby before 1.8.7-p352 does not reset the random seed upon forking, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to predict the values of random numbers by leveraging knowledge of the number sequence obtained in a different child process, a related issue to CVE-2003-0900. NOTE: this issue exists because of a regression during Ruby 1.8.6 development.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- [oss-security] 20110712 Re: CVE Request: ruby PRNG fixesmailing-list
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/07/02/ruby-1-8-7-p352-released/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722415
- [oss-security] 20110720 Re: CVE Request: ruby PRNG fixesmailing-list
- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4338
- http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7_352/ChangeLog
- http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=31713
- FEDORA-2011-9374vendor-advisory
- ruby-random-number-dos(69032)vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20110720 Re: CVE Request: ruby PRNG fixesmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20110711 CVE Request: ruby PRNG fixesmailing-list
- 49015vdb-entry
- FEDORA-2011-9359vendor-advisory
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