Bug#930659: libapache-session-perl: poor source of entropy for session id generation

Raphael Geissert geissert at debian.org
Mon Jun 17 21:44:50 BST 2019


Package: libapache-session-perl
Version: 1.93-3
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

As discussed in oss-security[1], libapache-session-perl uses a poor
source of entropy in Apache::Session::Generate::MD5. The critical part
is moving away from rand (e.g. to using urandom), but it would also be
a good time to update the way the id is generated.

The details are in the oss-sec thread.

[1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/15/1

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org



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