vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-5770-1 (CVE-2017-11671): GCC vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 26, 2017
Added
Dec 9, 2022
Modified
Apr 25, 2025

Description

Todd Eisenberger discovered that certain versions of GNU Compiler
Collection (GCC) could be made to clobber the status flag of RDRAND
and RDSEED with specially crafted input. This could potentially lead
to less randomness in random number generation.

Solution(s)

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-g-5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-gcc-5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-gccgo-5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-gccgo-6ubuntu-pro-upgrade-gcj-5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-gcj-5-jdkubuntu-pro-upgrade-gcj-5-jre-headlessubuntu-pro-upgrade-gdc-5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-gfortran-5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-gnat-5
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