Cryptographic Issues The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package symfony  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-SYMFONY-622598
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed1 Jun 2016

Introduced: 1 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-1902  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream symfony package and not the symfony package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The nextBytes function in the SecureRandom class in Symfony before 2.3.37, 2.6.x before 2.6.13, and 2.7.x before 2.7.9 does not properly generate random numbers when used with PHP 5.x without the paragonie/random_compat library and the openssl_random_pseudo_bytes function fails, which makes it easier for attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via unspecified vectors.