CVE-2014-0017

Severity

19%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

48%

The RAND_bytes function in libssh before 0.6.3, when forking is enabled, does not properly reset the state of the OpenSSL pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), which causes the state to be shared between children processes and allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging a pid collision.

The RAND_bytes function in libssh before 0.6.3, when forking is enabled, does not properly reset the state of the OpenSSL pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), which causes the state to be shared between children processes and allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging a pid collision.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 1.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

Type

Libssh

First reported 10 years ago

2014-03-14 15:55:00

Last updated 10 years ago

2014-03-26 04:55:00

Affected Software

Libssh 0.4.7

0.4.7

Libssh 0.4.8

0.4.8

Libssh 0.5.0

0.5.0

Libssh 0.5.0rc1

0.5.0

Libssh 0.5.1

0.5.1

Libssh 0.5.2

0.5.2

Libssh 0.5.3

0.5.3

Libssh 0.5.4

0.5.4

Libssh 0.5.5

0.5.5

Libssh 0.6.0

0.6.0

Libssh 0.6.1

0.6.1

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