Upstream information
Description
Ruby before 1.8.6-p114 does not reset the random seed upon forking, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to predict the values of random numbers by leveraging knowledge of the number sequence obtained in a different child process, a related issue to CVE-2003-0900.NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Novell/SUSE information
Novell Bugzilla entry: 704409 SUSE Security Advisories:- openSUSE-SU-2012:0228-1, published Thu, 9 Feb 2012 19:10:36 +0100 (CET)
