#VU11846 Insufficient entropy in PRNG in Stunnel - CVE-2014-0016 

 

#VU11846 Insufficient entropy in PRNG in Stunnel - CVE-2014-0016

Published: April 16, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11846
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: 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
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0016
CWE-ID: CWE-332
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Stunnel
Software vendor:
Stunnel.org

Description

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

Update to version 5.00.

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