UnratedRed Hat & Ubuntu Linux
tgt vulnerability
USN-8325-1 Published May 27, 2026
CVE-2024-45751
Affected products & platforms
Red Hat & Ubuntu LinuxUnclassified
Summary
It was discovered that tgt incorrectly tried to achieve entropy by calling rand without srand. An attacker could possibly use this issue to make tgt generate an identical sequence of challenges, resulting in authentication bypass. Affected Ubuntu releases: 24.04, 22.04, 18.04, 16.04, 14.04. CVEs: CVE-2024-45751.
Affected versions
- Ubuntu 24.04
- Ubuntu 22.04
- Ubuntu 18.04
- Ubuntu 16.04
- Ubuntu 14.04
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
Recommended fix / mitigation
- Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
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