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nCipher CHIL Random Cache Inheritance Security Issue
Secunia Advisory: SA16323
Release Date: 2005-08-03
Popularity: 5,815 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Unknown
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:nCipher Cryptographic Hardware Interface Library (CHIL) 1.x

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Description:
A security issue has been reported in nCipher CHIL (Cryptographic Hardware Interface Library), which may result in a program generating the same random bytes in all child processes for a certain period of time.

The security issue is caused due to the "HWCryptoHook_RandomBytes()" function not clearing its cache of random bytes when a process calling the function forks. This causes each child process to use the same sequence of random bytes until they exhaust this cache.

Successful exploitation requires that the application forks child processes and is dependent on how CHIL is used in the application (e.g. child processes of a vulnerable application may generate the same session keys).

The security issue affects versions prior to 1.9.7.

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