SB2014082901 - Gentoo update for stunnel
Published: August 29, 2014
Security Bulletin ID
SB2014082901
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 security vulnerability.
1) Insufficient entropy in PRNG (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0016)
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.