Insufficient Entropy in PRNG Affecting stunnel4 package, versions <3:5.02-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1510-STUNNEL4-292571
  • published24 Mar 2014
  • disclosed24 Mar 2014

Introduced: 24 Mar 2014

CVE-2014-0016  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-332  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:15.10 stunnel4 to version 3:5.02-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream stunnel4 package and not the stunnel4 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:15.10 relevant fixed versions and status.

stunnel before 5.00, when using fork threading, does not properly update the state of the OpenSSL pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), which causes subsequent children with the same process ID to use the same entropy pool and allows remote attackers to obtain private keys for EC (ECDSA) or DSA certificates.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1