Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-1128 to the following vulnerability: The Linear Congruential Generator (LCG) in PHP before 5.2.13 does not provide the expected entropy, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to guess values that were intended to be unpredictable, as demonstrated by session cookies generated by using the uniqid function. References: http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_13.php http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.13 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38430 http://secunia.com/advisories/38708 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0479
Upstream commit: http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=293253 More details in: http://samy.pl/phpwn/
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2010:0919 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0919.html
Statement: This issue is not planned to be fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 due to this product being in Production 3 of its maintenance life-cycle, where only qualified security errata of important and critical impact are addressed. For further information about the Errata Support Policy, visit: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata