Name | CVE-2015-9019 |
Description | In libxslt 1.1.29 and earlier, the EXSLT math.random function was not initialized with a random seed during startup, which could cause usage of this function to produce predictable outputs. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
Debian Bugs | 859796 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
libxslt (PTS) | buster | 1.1.32-2.2~deb10u1 | vulnerable |
bookworm, sid, bullseye | 1.1.34-4 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
libxslt | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | 859796 |
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758400
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=934119
There's no indication that math.random() in intended to ensure cryptographic
randomness requirements. Proper seeding needs to happen in the application
using libxslt.