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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9594: Improper Initialization

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9594: Improper Initialization

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/23/2018
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
10/10/2024

Description

curl before version 7.52.1 is vulnerable to an uninitialized random in libcurl's internal function that returns a good 32bit random value. Having a weak or virtually non-existent random value makes the operations that use it vulnerable.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-curl

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