CVE-2003-0094

CVE-2003-0094 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

A patch for mcookie in the util-linux package for Mandrake Linux 8.2 and 9.0 uses /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random, which causes mcookie to use an entropy source that is more predictable than expected, which may make it easier for certain types of attacks to succeed.

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