Ruby before 1.8.6-p114 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.
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Published : 2011-08-05 22:55
Updated : 2017-08-29 01:29
NVD link : CVE-2011-3009
Mitre link : CVE-2011-3009
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2011-3009
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Products Affected
ruby-lang
- ruby
CWE
CWE-310
Cryptographic Issues