stunnel before 5.00, when using fork threading, does not properly update the state of the OpenSSL pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), which causes subsequent children with the same process ID to use the same entropy pool and allows remote attackers to obtain private keys for EC (ECDSA) or DSA certificates.
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2014-03-23T15:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:58:26.561Z

Reserved: 2013-12-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-0016

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2014-03-24T16:31:08.447

Modified: 2017-01-26T20:00:06.940

Link: CVE-2014-0016

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-03-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-0016 - Bugzilla