Impact of the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability
A severe vulnerability was found in the random number generator (RNG)
of the Debian OpenSSL package, starting with version 0.9.8c-1 (and
similar packages in derived distributions such as Ubuntu). While this
bug is not present in the OpenSSL packages provided by CentOS, it may
still affect CentOS users.
The bug barred the OpenSSL random number generator from gaining enough
entropy required for generating unpredicatable keys. In fact it
appearss that the only source for entropy was the process ID of the
process generating a key, which is chosen from a very small range and
is predictable. As such, all keys generated using the Debian OpenSSL
library should be considered compromized. Programs that use OpenSSL
include OpenSSH and OpenVPN. Note that GnuPG and GNU TLS do not use
OpenSSL, so they are not affected.
This vulnerability can affect CentOS machines through the use of keys
that were generated with the OpenSSL package from Debian.


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