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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-12384: Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-12384: Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/29/2019
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/22/2024

Description

When handling a SSLv2-compatible ClientHello request, the server doesn't generate a new random value but sends an all-zero value instead. This results in full malleability of the ClientHello for SSLv2 used for TLS 1.2 in all versions prior to NSS 3.39. This does not impact TLS 1.3.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-nss

References

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