CVE-2005-0106

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-03 · updated 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 products

Ubuntu Linux: 5.04

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/18639
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:023
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13471
https://usn.ubuntu.com/113-1/
http://secunia.com/advisories/18639
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:023
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13471
https://usn.ubuntu.com/113-1/

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