First published: Tue May 03 2005(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux | =5.04 |
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