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Re: CVE Request: ruby PRNG fixes
From: Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:42:51 -0400 (EDT)
Sorry for the confusion. ----- Original Message -----
On 07/11/2011 02:07 PM, Ludwig Nussel wrote:http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/07/02/ruby-1-8-7-p352-released/ http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4579 http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=31713 http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=32050Looking at the above patches, there seems to be two issues here, perhaps it needs two CVE ids to be assigned? 1. http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=31713 This one pertains to rand returning same values in forked processes. http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4338 This is a regression, as it was fixed in 1.8.6-p114, but re-appeared in 1.8.6-p399.
Let's use CVE-2011-2686 for this one.
2. http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=32050 This is an issue in the securerandom.rb module. http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4579
Use CVE-2011-2705 for this. Thanks. -- JB
Current thread:
- CVE Request: ruby PRNG fixes Ludwig Nussel (Jul 11)
- Re: CVE Request: ruby PRNG fixes Josh Bressers (Jul 12)
- Re: CVE Request: ruby PRNG fixes Huzaifa Sidhpurwala (Jul 19)
- Re: CVE Request: ruby PRNG fixes Josh Bressers (Jul 20)