[tor-bugs] #17698 [Tor]: Avoid passing an uninitialised buffer to OpenSSL

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#17698: Avoid passing an uninitialised buffer to OpenSSL
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     Reporter:  teor    |      Owner:
         Type:  defect  |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium  |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.8.x-final
    Component:  Tor     |    Version:  Tor: unspecified
     Severity:  Normal  |   Keywords:
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 Don't pass potentially uninitialised buffers to RAND_bytes.

 (OpenSSL uses the buffer as an entropy source, which is
 undefined behaviour on uninitialised memory.)

 Bugfix on tor 0.0.6rc4, commit f6dbe5a0d42d / svn:r1717
 on 27 Apr 2004.

 See my branch rand-input-uninitialised, based on bug17686_v2_027.
 https://github.com/teor2345/tor.git

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