Bug 1023471 – Increase the saved random-seed to 4K

Bug 1023471 - Increase the saved random-seed to 4K

Summary:	Increase the saved random-seed to 4K

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	initscripts (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.5
Hardware:	Unspecified Linux

Priority	urgent Severity high
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Lukáš Nykrýn
QA Contact:	Jan Ščotka
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Reported:	2013-10-25 09:43 EDT by Steve Grubb
Modified:	2016-11-25 08:07 EST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	initscripts-9.03.41-1.el6
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Due to updated crypto requirements, we have to increase the saved seed size from 512 bytes to 4096 bytes in /etc/rc.sysinit.
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Last Closed:	2014-10-14 02:27:30 EDT
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Description Steve Grubb 2013-10-25 09:43:37 EDT

Description of problem:
Due to updated crypto requirements, we need to increase the saved seed size from 512 bytes to 4096 bytes in /etc/rc.sysinit. The spec file also saves a seed during install and this needs bumping up also. This affects the current planned FIPS-140 certification.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ls -l /var/lib/random-seed

Actual results:
512

Expected results:
4096

Comment 2 Lukáš Nykrýn 2014-03-26 08:53:42 EDT

Patch committed to upstream rhel branch
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/initscripts.git/commit/?h=rhel6-branch&id=26bb2c135c8b46258532db3d88cd172860abae4f

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 02:27:30 EDT

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1448.html

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