UBUNTU-CVE-2019-1549

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UBUNTU-CVE-2019-1549

Summary:

Details: OpenSSL 1.1.1 introduced a rewritten random number generator (RNG). This was intended to include protection in the event of a fork() system call in order to ensure that the parent and child processes did not share the same RNG state. However this protection was not being used in the default case. A partial mitigation for this issue is that the output from a high precision timer is mixed into the RNG state so the likelihood of a parent and child process sharing state is significantly reduced. If an application already calls OPENSSL_init_crypto() explicitly using OPENSSL_INIT_ATFORK then this problem does not occur at all. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.1d (Affected 1.1.1-1.1.1c).

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-1549, https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20190910.txt, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4376-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-1549