SB2014082901 - Gentoo update for stunnel
Published: August 29, 2014
Security Bulletin ID
SB2014082901
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Insufficient entropy in PRNG (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0016)
CWE-ID: CWE-332 - Insufficient Entropy in PRNG
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the targets system.
The weakness exists due to improper update of the state of the OpenSSL pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), which causes subsequent children with the same process ID to use the same entropy pool, when using fork threading. A remote attacker can gain access to potentially sensitive information.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.