CVE-2011-2686 (GCVE-0-2011-2686)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-08-05 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 23:08
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.com http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/063062.html Patch
secalert@redhat.com http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/063071.html Patch
secalert@redhat.com http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4338
secalert@redhat.com http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=31713 Patch
secalert@redhat.com http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7_352/ChangeLog
secalert@redhat.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/11/1 Patch
secalert@redhat.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/12/14 Patch
secalert@redhat.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/20/1 Patch
secalert@redhat.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/20/16 Patch
secalert@redhat.com http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/07/02/ruby-1-8-7-p352-released/ Patch
secalert@redhat.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49015
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722415 Patch
secalert@redhat.com https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69032
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/063062.html Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/063071.html Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4338
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=31713 Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7_352/ChangeLog
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/11/1 Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/12/14 Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/20/1 Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/20/16 Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/07/02/ruby-1-8-7-p352-released/ Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49015
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722415 Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69032
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