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

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Calendar Grey September 19, 2024
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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

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.

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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

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7024-1

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