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CVE-2005-0106

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.6 Published: 2005-05-03 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

SSLeay.pm in libnet-ssleay-perl before 1.25 uses the /tmp/entropy file for entropy if a source is not set in the EGD_PATH variable, which allows local users to reduce the cryptographic strength of certain operations by modifying the file.

Affected Platforms

Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References