Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 727
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 727

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS USN-7024-1 Critical: tgt Identical Challenges

ubuntu
Calendar Grey September 19, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Ubuntu Security Announcement USN-7024-1 highlights a tgt vulnerability impacting Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, requiring urgent action.
tgt could be made to generate identical sequence of challenges.

Summary

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Summary: tgt could be made to generate identical sequence of challenges. Software Description: - tgt: Linux SCSI target user-space daemon and tools Details: It was discovered that tgt attempts to achieve entropy by calling rand without srand. The PRNG seed is always 1, and thus the sequence of challenges is always identical.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Ubuntu tgt identical challenges

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS tgt 1:1.0.79-2ubuntu1.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7024-1

CVE-2024-45751

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7024-1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Ubuntu tgt identical challenges

Package Information

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here