CVE-2007-6150

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 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: 2007-11-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The "internal state tracking" code for the random and urandom devices in FreeBSD 5.5, 6.1 through 6.3, and 7.0 beta 4 allows local users to obtain portions of previously-accessed random values, which could be leveraged to bypass protection mechanisms that rely on secrecy of those values.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.0-beta_4

References

http://osvdb.org/39600
http://secunia.com/advisories/27879
http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:09.random.asc
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26642
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019022
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4053
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38764
http://osvdb.org/39600
http://secunia.com/advisories/27879
http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:09.random.asc
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26642
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019022

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