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CVE-2003-0900

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2003-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Perl 5.8.1 on Fedora Core does not properly initialize the random number generator when forking, which makes it easier for attackers to predict random numbers.

Affected products

• Larry Wall Perl: 5.8.1

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=108711
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=108711

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