CVE-2003-0094
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2004-09-01 04:00
Modified
2024-08-08 01:43
Severity ?
Summary
A patch for mcookie in the util-linux package for Mandrake Linux 8.2 and 9.0 uses /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random, which causes mcookie to use an entropy source that is more predictable than expected, which may make it easier for certain types of attacks to succeed.
Impacted products
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