CVE-2014-0016 Information

Description

stunnel before 5.00 when using fork threading does not properly update the state of the OpenSSL pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) which causes subsequent children with the same process ID to use the same entropy pool and allows remote attackers to obtain private keys for EC (ECDSA) or DSA certificates.

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/05/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65964 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=870826&action=diff https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072180 https://www.stunnel.org/sdf_ChangeLog.html

Share on: