{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2011-07-02T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "ruby: Properly initialize the random number generator when forking new process",
    "id" : "722415",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722415"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "2.1",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "The SecureRandom.random_bytes function in lib/securerandom.rb in Ruby before 1.8.7-p352 and 1.9.x before 1.9.2-p290 relies on PID values for initialization, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to predict the result string by leveraging knowledge of random strings obtained in an earlier process with the same PID." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2011-12-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:1581",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "ruby-0:1.8.7.352-3.el6"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "ruby",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "ruby",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2705\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2705" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2011-2705",
  "csaw" : false
}