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Bug 1343085 - (CVE-2016-5300) CVE-2016-5300 expat: Little entropy used for hash initialization
CVE-2016-5300 expat: Little entropy used for hash initialization
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20160604,repor...
: Security
Depends On: 1343089 1343090 1343086 1343087 1343088
Blocks: 1296104 1319739
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Reported: 2016-06-06 09:14 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2018-07-05 17:35 EDT (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-07-05 17:35:47 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 2016-06-06 09:14:47 EDT
It was found that original fix for CVE-2012-0876 used too little entropy for the hash intilization.

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http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/473
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-06-06 09:15:47 EDT
Created compat-expat1 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1343087]
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-06-06 09:15:57 EDT
Created expat tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1343086]
Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2016-06-06 09:16:05 EDT
Created mingw-expat tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1343088]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1343090]
Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2016-06-06 09:16:12 EDT
Created expat21 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1343089]
Comment 5 Adam Mariš 2016-06-06 09:19 EDT
Created attachment 1165210 [details]
Proposed upstream patch

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