From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.20.13
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 14:00:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070609190010.GA11166@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070608070028.GA3457@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:00:28AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.20.13 kernel.
> This release has three security fixes in it:
>
> 54bb290b: random: fix error in entropy extraction (CVE-2007-2453 1 of 2)
> f5939fcd: random: fix seeding with zero entropy (CVE-2007-2453 2 of 2)
>
> The /dev/[u]random fix is especially important for machines with no
> entropy source (e.g. keyboard, mice, or disk drives) and no realtime clock
> since successive boots could generate same output from RNG.
For the record, /dev/random was not impacted. It will fail safe (eg
block forever) on machines with no entropy sources.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-08 7:00 Linux 2.6.20.13 Chris Wright
2007-06-08 7:01 ` Chris Wright
2007-06-09 19:00 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
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