Ruby Random Number Generator Vulnerability

CVE-2011-2686 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Ruby before 1.8.7-p352 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. NOTE: this issue exists because of a regression during Ruby 1.8.6 development.

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