CVE-2019-1549

Fork Protection

Published Sep 10, 2019 CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS 6.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
OpenSSL 1.1.1 introduced a rewritten random number generator (RNG). This was intended to include protection in the event of a fork() system call in order to ensure that the parent and child processes did not share the same RNG state. However this protection was not being used in the default case. A partial mitigation for this issue is that the output from a high precision timer is mixed into the RNG state so the likelihood of a parent and child process sharing state is significantly reduced. If an application already calls OPENSSL_init_crypto() explicitly using OPENSSL_INIT_ATFORK then this problem does not occur at all. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.1d (Affected 1.1.1-1.1.1c).

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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4539-1 openssl security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-10106 OpenSSL 1.1.1 introduced a rewritten random number generator (RNG). This was intended to include protection in the event of a fork() system call in order to ensure that the parent and child processes did not share the same RNG state. However this protection was not being used in the default case. A partial mitigation for this issue is that the output from a high precision timer is mixed into the RNG state so the likelihood of a parent and child process sharing state is significantly reduced. If an application already calls OPENSSL_init_crypto() explicitly using OPENSSL_INIT_ATFORK then this problem does not occur at all. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.1d (Affected 1.1.1-1.1.1c).
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4376-1 OpenSSL vulnerabilities
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
openssl
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 10:56 PM
Reserved
Nov 28, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 10, 2019, 5:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:28 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Sep 10, 2019, 12:00 AM