Re: CVE Request: ruby PRNG fixes

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

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=32050
>
> Looking 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.

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    JB