CVE-2007-6150 (GCVE-0-2007-6150)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-11-30 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:54
VLAI
Summary
The "internal state tracking" code for the random and urandom devices in FreeBSD 5.5, 6.1 through 6.3, and 7.0 beta 4 allows local users to obtain portions of previously-accessed random values, which could be leveraged to bypass protection mechanisms that rely on secrecy of those values.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26642 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019022 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/27879 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://osvdb.org/39600 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4053 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Date Public
2007-11-29 00:00
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