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CVSSv2

CVE-2011-3009

Published: 05/08/2011 Updated: 29/08/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

Ruby prior to 1.8.6-p114 does not reset the random seed upon forking, which makes it easier for context-dependent malicious users to predict the values of random numbers by leveraging knowledge of the number sequence obtained in a different child process, a related issue to CVE-2003-0900.

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ruby-lang ruby 1.8.6

Vendor Advisories

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Synopsis Moderate: ruby security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated ruby packages that fix two security issues are now available forRed Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact Common Vulnerability Sc ...