CVE-2011-3009 — Ruby vulnerability

5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 34.14%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Ruby-lang Ruby
Timeline
PublishedAug 5
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Ruby before 1.8.6-p114 does not reset the random seed upon forking, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers 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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:N/A:NExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDruby-lang/ruby1.8.6+1

Patches

Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: www.openwall.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-mg6g-jwh6-pwjf: Ruby before 1↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2011-3009: Ruby before 1↗2011-08-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
ruby: Properly initialize the random number generator when forking new process↗2011-07-02
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2011-2686 CVE-2011-2705 CVE-2011-3009 ruby: Properly initialize the random number generator when forking new process↗2011-07-15
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CVE-2011-3009 — Ruby-lang Ruby vulnerability | cvebase