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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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
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2011-08-05T22:55:01.547
Modified: 2017-08-29T01:29:53.943
Link: CVE-2011-3009
Redhat