CVE-2014-0016

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 23, 2014
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Dec 3, 2013

Description

stunnel before 5.00, when using fork threading, does not properly update the state of the OpenSSL pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), which causes subsequent children with the same process ID to use the same entropy pool and allows remote attackers to obtain private keys for EC (ECDSA) or DSA certificates.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://www.stunnel.org/sdf_ChangeLog.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=870826&action=diff
[oss-security] 20140305 libssh and stunnel PRNG flawsmailing-list
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072180
65964vdb-entry

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