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Message-ID: <4E266FFD.6000901@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:34:45 +0530
From: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de>, Marcus Rueckert <mrueckert@...e.de>,
        security@...y-lang.org, Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...y-lang.org>,
        Joshua Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: ruby PRNG fixes

On 07/11/2011 02:07 PM, Ludwig Nussel wrote:

> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/07/02/ruby-1-8-7-p352-released/
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4579
> http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=31713
> http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=32050

Looking at the above patches, there seems to be two issues here, perhaps
it needs two CVE ids to be assigned?

1. http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=31713

This one pertains to rand returning same values in forked processes.
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4338
This is a regression, as it was fixed in 1.8.6-p114, but re-appeared in
1.8.6-p399.

2. http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=32050

This is an issue in the securerandom.rb module.
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4579

Josh,

Can we please assign CVE-2011-2686 to one of the issues and have another
CVE id to the other issue?

Thanks.

-- 
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala / Red Hat Security Response Team

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