CVE-2008-4102 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4102
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Description: Joomla! 1.5 before 1.5.7 initializes PHP's PRNG with a weak seed, which makes it easier for attackers to guess the pseudo-random values produced by PHP's mt_rand function, as demonstrated by guessing password reset tokens, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-3681.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45068 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4271 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA31789 MLIST http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122152798516853&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122115344915232&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122118210029084&w=2 MISC http://www.sektioneins.de/advisories/SE-2008-04.txt http://www.suspekt.org/2008/08/17/mt_srand-and-not-so-random-numbers/ CONFIRM http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/272-20080902-core-random-number-generation-flaw.html BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/496237/100/0/threaded

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