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CVE-2025-0577

glibc: vDSO getrandom acceleration may return predictable randomness

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · January 24, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

An insufficient entropy vulnerability was found in glibc. The getrandom and arc4random family of functions may return predictable randomness if these functions are called again after the fork, which happens concurrently with a call to any of these functions.

Statement

This flaw only affected a limited subset of glibc versions present in Fedora 40 (glibc-2.39-28.fc40 and glibc-2.39-33.fc40), Fedora 41 (glibc-2.40-12.fc41 and glibc-2.40-17.fc41) and CentOS 10 Stream (glibc-2.39-29.el10 to glibc-2.39-33.el10).

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 4.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE-331 · Insufficient Entropy