An insufficient entropy vulnerability was found in glibc. The getrandom and arc4random family of functions may return predictable randomness if these functions are called again after the fork, which happens concurrently with a call to any of these functions.
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Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:45:00 +0000
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| Title | glibc: vDSO getrandom acceleration may return predictable randomness | Glibc: vdso getrandom acceleration may return predictable randomness |
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Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
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| CPEs | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
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Fri, 24 Jan 2025 01:45:00 +0000
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| Description | An insufficient entropy vulnerability was found in glibc. The getrandom and arc4random family of functions may return predictable randomness if these functions are called again after the fork, which happens concurrently with a call to any of these functions. | |
| Title | glibc: vDSO getrandom acceleration may return predictable randomness | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-331 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: fedora
Published:
Updated: 2026-02-18T20:25:34.864Z
Reserved: 2025-01-19T13:43:18.289Z
Link: CVE-2025-0577
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-02-18T21:16:20.010
Modified: 2026-02-19T15:53:02.850
Link: CVE-2025-0577
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