CVE-2015-5276
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-11-17 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 06:41
Severity ?
Summary
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.
Impacted products
n/an/a
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