Security Advisory

CVE-2015-5276

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-11-17 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 06:41:09
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The std::random_device class in libstdc++ in the GNU Compiler Collection (aka GCC) before 4.9.4 does not properly handle short reads from blocking sources, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to predict the random values via unspecified vectors.