[krbdev.mit.edu #5666] SVN Commit

Ezra Peisach via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Mon Aug 20 10:50:48 EDT 2007


read_entropy_from_device() will loop in read until the desired number
of bytes are read from the device (/dev/random, /dev/urandom).  I have
observed that for /dev/random, if there is not enough bits available
for reading - it will return a partial read.  The code would loop in
this case, but never advance the location to place the new bytes -
hence the start of the buffer would be filled again - leaving the tail
end as stack garbage.



Commit By: epeisach



Revision: 19845
Changed Files:
U   trunk/src/lib/crypto/prng.c




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