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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-6150
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2007-6150

Description:
The "internal state tracking" code for the random and urandom devices in FreeBSD 5.5, 6.1 through 6.3, and 7.0 beta 4 allows local users to obtain portions of previously-accessed random values, which could be leveraged to bypass protection mechanisms that rely on secrecy of those values.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38764

ST
  1019022

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA27879

FREEBSD
  http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:09.random.asc

BID
  26642


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