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Fedora 9: 2008-8728 Moderate: php-pear-Cache Random Generator Issue

fedora
Calendar Grey October 20, 2008
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical Fedora 9 php-pear-Cache patch released to address random number generator initialization concerns and enhance overall security measures.
Security issue due to seeding random number generator

Summary

With the PEAR Cache you can cache the result of certain function

calls, as well as the output of a whole script run or share data

between applications.

Upstream Changelog: Version 1.5.5 - Release date: 2008-10-07 09:08 UTC

Release state: stable - Fixed Bug #14673: Security issue due to seeding

random number generator

* Tue Oct 7 2008 Remi Collet 1.5.5-1

- finale 1.5.5

su -c 'yum update php-pear-Cache' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

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GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update Fedora php-pear random number generation

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 9
Version: 1.5.5
Release: 1.fc9
URL: https://pear.php.net/package/Cache
Summary: Framework for caching of arbitrary data

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update Fedora php-pear random number generation

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