ubuntu · CVE-2011-2705

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Priority: medium Published: 2011-08-05 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2024-07-24 15:57:39 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2011-2705 medium priority: Ubuntu including 3 source packages (ruby1.8, ruby1.9, ruby1.9.1), 30 status rows across 10 suites (hardy, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, upstream): not-affected 10, DNE 8, ignored 6, released 5, needs-triage 1.

Description:

The SecureRandom.random_bytes function in lib/securerandom.rb in Ruby before 1.8.7-p352 and 1.9.x before 1.9.2-p290 relies on PID values for initialization, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to predict the result string by leveraging knowledge of random strings obtained in an earlier process with the same PID.

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