The GENERATE_SEED macro in PHP 4.x before 4.4.8 and 5.x before 5.2.5, when running on 64-bit systems, performs a multiplication that generates a portion of zero bits during conversion due to insufficient precision, which produces 24 bits of entropy and simplifies brute force attacks against protection mechanisms that use the rand and mt_rand functions.

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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1789-1 New php5 packages fix several vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-628-1 PHP vulnerabilities
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http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-05/0103.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30757 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30828 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31119 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31124 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31200 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32746 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35003 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3859 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1789 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:125 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:126 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:127 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:128 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:129 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:130 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0505.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0544.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0545.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0546.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0582.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491683/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.sektioneins.de/advisories/SE-2008-02.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-628-1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42226 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2108 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10844 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2108 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00773.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00779.html cve-icon cve-icon
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T08:49:57.790Z

Reserved: 2008-05-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-2108

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2008-05-07T21:20:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2008-2108

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-2108 - Bugzilla

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