CVE-2014-0017 (GCVE-0-2014-0017)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-03-14 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:58
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The RAND_bytes function in libssh before 0.6.3, when forking is enabled, does not properly reset the state of the OpenSSL pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), which causes the state to be shared between children processes and allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging a pid collision.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2145-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
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| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-0… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/57407 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/05/1 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.libssh.org/2014/03/04/libssh-0-6-3-sec… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-0… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072191 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2014-03-04 00:00
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"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:33:02Z",
"product_status:known_not_affected": "38",
"product_status:recommended": "123",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2014-0017",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2014-0017.json",
"version": "19"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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