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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2011-08-05T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T23:08:23.714Z

Reserved: 2011-07-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2011-2686

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-08-05T21:55:04.467

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:07:44.460

Link: CVE-2011-2686

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2011-07-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-2686 - Bugzilla