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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-0106
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2005-0106

Description:
SSLeay.pm in libnet-ssleay-perl before 1.25 uses the /tmp/entropy file for entropy if a source is not set in the EGD_PATH variable, which allows local users to reduce the cryptographic strength of certain operations by modifying the file.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-113-1

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA18639

MANDRIVA
  http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:023

BID
  13471


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