CVE-2011-3009 Information

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.

Reference

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4338 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0070.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/20/1 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1581.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49126 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69157