UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2626

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2626

    Published: 27 Jul 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-2626
    Aliases:
    USN-5744-1

    Summary:

    Details: It was discovered that libICE before 1.0.9-8 used a weak entropy to generate keys. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw for session hijacking using the information available from the process list.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-2626, https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-001-xorg/, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/1, https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libICE/commit/?id=ff5e59f32255913bb1cdf51441b98c9107ae165b, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5744-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2626

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libice

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libice@2:1.0.9-1ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2:1.0.9-1ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1

    Affected versions

    2:1.0.9-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High