>> FreeBSD Security Update Fixes Random Value Disclosure Vulnerability
Title : FreeBSD Security Update Fixes Random Value Disclosure Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-4053 CVE ID : CVE-2007-6150
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-12-03
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in FreeBSD, which could be exploited by attackes to bypass security restrictions and gain knowledge of sensitive information. This issue is caused by an error in the internal state tracking on the "random" and "urandom" devices, which could be exploited to allow replaying of data distributed during subsequent reads, and determine fragments of random values previously read.
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