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It has been reported that Crypt::DSA, a Perl module for DSA signatures and key generation, used cryptographically weak / insecure method for random numbers generation on systems, where /dev/random file was not present. Due this flaw an attacker could be able to discover some portions of / whole secret DSA key, which has been created on such system.

References: [1] http://secunia.com/advisories/46275/ [2] https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=71421

Proposed upstream patch is to remove the affected fallback code part: [3] https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=71421#txn-984052 (though not approved yet)

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Source: Red Hat
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