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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EUVD |
EUVD-2011-2977 | 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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T23:22:26.693Z
Reserved: 2011-08-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2011-3009
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2011-08-05T22:55:01.547
Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Link: CVE-2011-3009
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