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Race condition In ruby

Description

Ruby before 1.8.6-p114 does not reset the random seed upon forking, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to predict the values of random numbers by leveraging knowledge of the number sequence obtained in a different child process, a related issue to CVE-2003-0900.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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