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CVE-2013-1445

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Entered Topic
2013-10-19 pycrypto -- PRNG reseed race condition

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2013-1445
Phase Assigned(20130126)

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.

References

Source Reference
MLIST [oss-security] 20131017 CVE-2013-1445 python-crypto:PRNG not correctly reseeded in some situations
CONFIRM https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/commit/19dcf7b15d61b7dc1a125a367151de40df6ef175
DEBIAN DSA-2781