CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-0106

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2005-05-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-05-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

SSLeay.pm in libnet-ssleay-perl before 1.25 uses the /tmp/entropy file for entropy if a source is not set in the EGD_PATH variable, which allows local users to reduce the cryptographic strength of certain operations by modifying the file.

Affected configurations

• ubuntu ubuntu linux 5.04

References