CVE-2012-6661 Information

Description

Zope before 2.13.19 as used in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1 does not reseed the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess the value via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2012-5508 due to different vulnerability types (ADT2).

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/1071067 https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/24 https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121124