Security Advisory

CVE-2013-1445

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-10-26 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-16 16:43:18
Assigner debian
State PUBLISHED

Description

The Crypto.Random.atfork function in PyCrypto before 2.6.1 does not properly reseed the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) before allowing a child process to access it, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging a race condition in which a child process is created and accesses the PRNG within the same rate-limit period as another process.