CVE-2016-9594

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2016-12-23
CWE:
CWE-665
Bugzilla:
1408385: CVE-2016-9594 curl: Unitialized random

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

curl before version 7.52.1 is vulnerable to an uninitialized random in libcurl's internal function that returns a good 32bit random value. Having a weak or virtually non-existent random value makes the operations that use it vulnerable.

Find out more about CVE-2016-9594 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 6.5
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0 curl Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 curl Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 curl Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 curl Not affected
RHEV Manager 3 mingw-virt-viewer Not affected
.NET Core 2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-dotnet20-curl Not affected
.NET Core 1.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-dotnetcore10-curl Not affected
.NET Core 1.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-dotnetcore11-curl Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Daniel Stenberg for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Kamil Dudka (Red Hat) as the original reporter.

External References

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