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Bug 1319731 - (CVE-2012-6702) CVE-2012-6702 expat: Using XML_Parse before rand() results into non-random output
CVE-2012-6702 expat: Using XML_Parse before rand() results into non-random ou...
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20150227,repor...
: Security
Depends On: 1319735 1319736 1197087 1319732 1319733 1319734
Blocks: 1296104 1319739
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Reported: 2016-03-21 07:55 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2018-07-05 17:35 EDT (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-07-05 17:35:50 EDT
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Proposed upstream patch (4.42 KB, patch)
2016-06-06 09:19 EDT, Adam Mariš
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-03-21 07:55:54 EDT
It was found that when calling XML_Parse ahead of rand(), it causes the pseudo random generator to generate non-random predictable numbers.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1197087
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-03-21 07:56:47 EDT
Created compat-expat1 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1319733]
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-03-21 07:56:56 EDT
Created expat tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1319732]
Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2016-03-21 07:57:03 EDT
Created mingw-expat tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1319734]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1319736]
Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2016-03-21 07:57:10 EDT
Created expat21 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1319735]
Comment 5 Andrej Nemec 2016-06-06 03:50:05 EDT
CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/469
Comment 6 Adam Mariš 2016-06-06 09:19 EDT
Created attachment 1165212 [details]
Proposed upstream patch

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