Medium
Security advisory
It was discovered that libICE before 1.0.9-8 used a weak entropy to generate keys. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw for session hijacking using the information available from the process list.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-2626
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
It was discovered that libICE before 1.0.9-8 used a weak entropy to generate keys. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw for session hijacking using the information available from the process list.
osv:CVE-2017-2626
Complete source record
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