CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-3009
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-08-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• ruby-lang ruby (<= 1.8.6)
• ruby-lang ruby 1.8.6
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4338 redmine.ruby-lang.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0070.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/20/1 Patch
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1581.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49126 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69157 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4338 redmine.ruby-lang.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0070.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/20/1 Patch
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1581.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49126 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69157 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com