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CVSSv2

CVE-2005-0106

Published: 03/05/2005 Updated: 03/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 409
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

SSLeay.pm in libnet-ssleay-perl prior to 1.25 uses the /tmp/entropy file for entropy if a source is not set in the EGD_PATH variable, which allows local users to reduce the cryptographic strength of certain operations by modifying the file.

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Vendor Advisories

Ubuntu Security Notice: libnet-ssleay-perl vulnerability
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that this library used the file /tmp/entropy as a fallback entropy source if a proper source was not set in the environment variable EGD_PATH This can potentially lead to weakened cryptographic operations if an attacker provides a /tmp/entropy file with known content ...

References

NVD-CWE-Otherhttp://secunia.com/advisories/18639http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13471http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:023https://usn.ubuntu.com/113-1/https://usn.ubuntu.com/113-1/https://nvd.nist.gov
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