CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0535

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2000-06-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-06-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSH for FreeBSD do not properly check for the existence of the /dev/random or /dev/urandom devices, which are absent on FreeBSD Alpha systems, which causes them to produce weak keys which may be more easily broken.

Affected configurations

• openssl openssl 0.9.4 • freebsd freebsd 4.0 • freebsd freebsd 5.0

References