CVE-2003-0900

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2003-12-31

Last modified

2024-08-08

Affected products

• Perl (Larry Wall)

References

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