Detections
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CVE-2013-5173
medium
Description
The random-number generator in the kernel in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 provides lengthy exclusive access for processing of large requests, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (temporary generator outage) via an application that requires many random numbers.
References
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html