CVE-2014-0017 Information

Description

The RAND_bytes function in libssh before 0.6.3 when forking is enabled does not properly reset the state of the OpenSSL pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) which causes the state to be shared between children processes and allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging a pid collision.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00036.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00040.html http://secunia.com/advisories/57407 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2879 http://www.libssh.org/2014/03/04/libssh-0-6-3-security-release/ http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/05/1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2145-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072191