Re:This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem
by scatters on Thursday December 02, 2021 @05:06AM
(#29414368)
This is incorrect.
If they had simply removed the offending line (or, indeed, set a preprocessor flag that was provided explicitly for that purpose) it would have been fine. The problem was that they also removed a similar looking line that was the path providing actual randomness.
If they had simply removed the offending line (or, indeed, set a preprocessor flag that was provided explicitly for that purpose) it would have been fine. The problem was that they also removed a similar looking line that was the path providing actual randomness.