New openssl packages fix predictable random number generator

Posted by H. Heigl
On May 14th, 2008 at 00:05

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Luciano Bello discovered that the random number generator in Debian’s openssl package is predictable. This is caused by an incorrect Debian-specific change to the openssl package (CVE-2008-0166). As a result, cryptographic key material may be guessable.

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