CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1577
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-12-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-335
Description
lib/libc/stdlib/random.c in OpenBSD returns 0 when seeded with 0.
Affected configurations
• dietlibc project dietlibc
• openbsd openbsd
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-335 Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) weakness
References
- http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.c#rev1.16 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/23/14 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ensc/dietlibc/blob/master/CHANGES Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1577 Third Party Advisory
- http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.c#rev1.16 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/23/14 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ensc/dietlibc/blob/master/CHANGES Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1577 Third Party Advisory