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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 23:29:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: andrew@...ewerks.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, toconnor@...ewerks.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: linux kernel net_get_random_once bug
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> My colleague Tom O'Connor and I have identified a security bug in the
> Linux kernel that results in drastically degraded randomness ...
> existed in kernel versions 3.13 and 3.14
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3d4405226d27b3a215e4d03cfa51f536244e5de7
> http://secondlookforensics.com/ngro-linux-kernel-bug/
>
> Part of the explanation ... is ... "this call-site will
> get patched up at boot". But actually, it is not always
> true that this patching occurs as expected. On affected
> systems, the slow path (where initialization of random
> seeds occurs) is never taken.
Use CVE-2014-7284.
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