From: "Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: 2.4.7: random.c - potential security problem
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 07:53:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B7392DF.231.5D8E1@localhost> (raw)
Hi,
maybe some of you find this interesting: Yesterday I was grepping for
some variable in the source tree when I ended up in
drivers/char/random.c. There I noticed that the driver uses wall time
to re-seed the TCP sequence numbers for example. This means that no re-
seeding takes place if the clock is set back a significant amount of
time, e.g. if the CMOS clock failed or was completely off.
I don't know if the problem is severe, but I thought I tell you.
Regards,
Ulrich
P.S. Not subscribed to this list
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2001-08-10 5:53 Ulrich Windl [this message]
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2001-08-10 7:30 ` 2.4.7: random.c - potential security problem Ulrich Windl
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