Re: Does /dev/urandom now block until initialised ?

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Theodore Y. Ts'o [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 04:43:01AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:

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One of the reasons why I didn't see the problem when I was developing
the remediation patch for CVE-2018-1108 is because I run Debian
testing, which doesn't have this particular Red Hat patch.

Off-topic, I'm kind of surprised it took that long to fix it (if I am
parsing things correctly).

I believe Stephan Mueller wrote up the weakness a couple of years ago.
He's the one who explained the interactions to me. Mueller was even
cited at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4167.

It is too bad he Mueller not receive credit for it in the CVE database.

Jeff