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LIN6-7703 : Fix for entropy counting

Created: Jun 17, 2014    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Jun 19, 2014
Found In Version: 6.0
Fix Version: 6.0.0.9
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: BSP - Async

Description

It is a bug in kernels older than 3.13 that they overestimate the available entropy, which is at least theoretically is a security hole.
See http://git.kernel.org/linus/30e37ec516ae5a6957596de7661673c615c82ea4
for the gory mathematical details.
This presumably refers to patch 30e37ec516ae5a6957596de7661673c615c82ea4 which was included in the Linux 3.13 kernel;
its prerequisites are 9ed17b70b409dc48c134a80b5a6df582ba759de2 and a283b5c459784f9762a74c312b134e9a524f5a5f.

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