On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:00:28AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.20.13 kernel.
> This release has three security fixes in it:
>
> 54bb290b: random: fix error in entropy extraction (CVE-2007-2453 1 of 2)
> f5939fcd: random: fix seeding with zero entropy (CVE-2007-2453 2 of 2)
>
> The /dev/[u]random fix is especially important for machines with no
> entropy source (e.g. keyboard, mice, or disk drives) and no realtime clock
> since successive boots could generate same output from RNG.
For the record, /dev/random was not impacted. It will fail safe (eg
block forever) on machines with no entropy sources.
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