Insecure Entropy Source in SSLeay.pm

Insecure Entropy Source in SSLeay.pm

CVE-2005-0106 · MEDIUM Severity

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

SSLeay.pm in libnet-ssleay-perl before 1.25 uses the /tmp/entropy file for entropy if a source is not set in the EGD_PATH variable, which allows local users to reduce the cryptographic strength of certain operations by modifying the file.

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