Insecure Randomness Affecting freedesktop/libice package, versions [,1.0.9-8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEDESKTOPLIBICE-2367095
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Jul 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jul 2018

CVE-2017-2626  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-331  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freedesktop/libice to version 1.0.9-8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Randomness. It was discovered that libICE before 1.0.9-8 used a weak entropy to generate keys. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw for session hijacking using the information available from the process list.

CVSS Base Scores

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