Insecure Randomness Affecting u-boot package, versions [2014.04,2019.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-UBOOT-2317749
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed3 May 2019
  • creditRoman Stratiienko

Introduced: 3 May 2019

CVE-2019-11690  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-330  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade u-boot to version 2019.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Randomness gen_rand_uuid in lib/uuid.c in Das U-Boot v2014.04 through v2019.04 lacks an srand call, which allows attackers to determine UUID values in scenarios where CONFIG_RANDOM_UUID is enabled, and Das U-Boot is relied upon for UUID values of a GUID Partition Table of a boot device.

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