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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2011-08-05T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T23:22:26.693Z

Reserved: 2011-08-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2011-3009

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-08-05T22:55:01.547

Modified: 2017-08-29T01:29:53.943

Link: CVE-2011-3009

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

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

Links: CVE-2011-3009 - Bugzilla