PT-2014-6443

CVE-2014-5386

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Published

2014-12-28

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Updated

2014-12-30

Description by

CVSS 2.0
5.0
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions HHVM versions prior to 3.3.0
Description The issue concerns the mcrypt create iv function in HHVM, which does not properly seed the random number generator. This oversight makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by exploiting the use of a single initialization vector.
Recommendations For versions prior to 3.3.0, update to version 3.3.0 or later to resolve the issue.
Exploitability
Fix
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
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