Security Advisory

CVE-2013-5180

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-10-24 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-17 03:58:41
Assigner apple
State PUBLISHED

Description

The srandomdev function in Libc in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9, when the kernel random-number generator is unavailable, produces predictable values instead of the intended random values, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging knowledge of these values, related to a compiler-optimization issue.