GHSA-xxr9-37w5-wgwc

GHSA-xxr9-37w5-wgwc PUBLISHED

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 17, 2022

stunnel before 5.00, when using fork threading, does not properly update the state of the OpenSSL pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), which causes subsequent children with the same process ID to use the same entropy pool and allows remote attackers to obtain private keys for EC (ECDSA) or DSA certificates.

Timeline

May 17, 2022 CVE Published
May 1, 2026 Security Advisory

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0016 advisory
https://www.stunnel.org/sdf_ChangeLog.html url
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65964 url
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=870826&action=diff url
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072180 url
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/05/1 url

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