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Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

CVE-2012-1577

High
7.5/10

Summary

lib/libc/stdlib/random.c in OpenBSD returns 0 when seeded with 0.

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  • NETWORK
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CWE-335 - Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

The software uses a Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) but does not correctly manage seeds.

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