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authorBenjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@gmail.com>2017-04-04 19:12:53 +0200
committerPeter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>2017-04-24 11:09:01 +1000
commitff5e59f32255913bb1cdf51441b98c9107ae165b (patch)
tree313b2611fafd67b91640680e25bb454df4c3f69b /doc
parent1746abbb1ae1c41ba29c14895c5bd3f1334faef5 (diff)
Use getentropy() if arc4random_buf() is not available
This allows to fix CVE-2017-2626 on Linux platforms without pulling in libbsd. The libc getentropy() is available since glibc 2.25 but also on OpenBSD. For Linux, we need at least a v3.17 kernel. If the recommended arc4random_buf() function is not available, emulate it by first trying to use getentropy() on a supported glibc and kernel. If the call fails, fall back to the current (partly vulnerable) code. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org> Reviewed-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
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