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DEBIAN-CVE-2019-1549

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-1549 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.300000190734863 MEDIUM

OpenSSL 1.1.1 introduced a rewritten random number generator (RNG). This was intended to include protection in the event of a fork() system call in order to ensure that the parent and child processes did not share the same RNG state. However this protection was not being used in the default case. A partial mitigation for this issue is that the output from a high precision timer is mixed into the RNG state so the likelihood of a parent and child process sharing state is significantly reduced. If an application already calls OPENSSL_init_crypto() explicitly using OPENSSL_INIT_ATFORK then this problem does not occur at all. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.1d (Affected 1.1.1-1.1.1c).

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
5.300000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11openssl0, 0, 0
Debian:14openssl0, 0, 0
Debian:13openssl0, 0, 0
Debian:12openssl0, 0, 0

Exploit Intelligence

Timeline

  • Sep 10, 2019 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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