Secure testing commits - Nov 2008 - r10408 - data/CVE

Author: atomo64-guest
Date: 2008-11-18 02:05:40 +0000 (Tue, 18 Nov 2008)
New Revision: 10408

Modified:
   data/CVE/list
Log:
The mt_/rand issues in PHP are unimportant


Modified: data/CVE/list
==================================================================---
data/CVE/list	2008-11-17 23:34:38 UTC (rev 10407)
+++ data/CVE/list	2008-11-18 02:05:40 UTC (rev 10408)
@@ -2203,7 +2203,9 @@
 CVE-2008-4110 (Buffer overflow in the SQLVDIRLib.SQLVDirControl ActiveX control
in ...)
 	NOT-FOR-US: Microsoft
 CVE-2008-4107 (The (1) rand and (2) mt_rand functions in PHP 5.2.6 do not
produce ...)
-	- php5 <unfixed> (bug #500087)
+	- php5 <unfixed> (unimportant; bug #500087)
+	NOTE: the rand() and mt_rand() functions were never said to be
cryptographically strong
+	NOTE: http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/efaq.html
 CVE-2008-4106 (WordPress before 2.6.2 does not properly handle MySQL warnings
about ...)
 	- wordpress 2.5.1-8 (bug #500115)
 CVE-2008-4105 (JRequest in Joomla! 1.5 before 1.5.7 does not sanitize variables
that ...)