CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-2683

Published: Oct 23, 2017 | Modified: Nov 21, 2017
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

reseed seeds random numbers from an insecure HTTP request to random.org during installation, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a man-in-the-middle attack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Reseed Reseed_project - (including) - (including)
Reseed Ubuntu hardy *
Reseed Ubuntu lucid *
Reseed Ubuntu maverick *
Reseed Ubuntu natty *

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