Bug 1811037 (CVE-2016-10743) - CVE-2016-10743 hostapd: Not preventig the use of low quality PRNG leads to insufficient entropy
Summary: CVE-2016-10743 hostapd: Not preventig the use of low quality PRNG leads to in...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-10743
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1811039
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Reported: 2020-03-06 13:42 UTC by Michael Kaplan
Modified: 2021-02-16 20:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-03-27 06:37:30 UTC
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Description Michael Kaplan 2020-03-06 13:42:38 UTC 
hostapd before 2.6 does not prevent use of the low-quality PRNG that is reached by an os_random() function call resulting in insufficient entropy.

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https://moabi.com/advisories/CVE-2019-10064.html
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2020-03-27 06:37:30 UTC 
Analysis:

This issue is only triggered with WPS pin needs to be generated and there is no /dev/urandom device. Such a scenario should not be possible in a typical server configuration, and may be a case in case of IoT or embedded devices. Therefore marking Red Hat Products as not affected.
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