bugtraq - [ MDVSA-2015:008 ] pwgen

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Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 16:46:00 +0100
From: security@...driva.com
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: [ MDVSA-2015:008 ] pwgen

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 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2015:008
 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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 Package : pwgen
 Date    : January 8, 2015
 Affected: Business Server 1.0
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 Problem Description:

 Updated pwgen package fixes security vulnerabilities:

 Pwgen was found to generate weak non-tty passwords by default, which
 could be brute-forced with a commendable success rate, which could
 raise security concerns (CVE-2013-4440).

 Pwgen was found to silently falling back to use standard pseudo
 generated numbers on the systems that heavily use entropy. Systems,
 such as those with a lot of daemons providing encryption services,
 the entropy was found to be exhausted, which forces pwgen to fall
 back to use standard pseudo generated numbers (CVE-2013-4442).
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 References:

 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4440
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4442
 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0535.html
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 Updated Packages:

 Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
 fe157e3baf2e8417adfc744fb6c2fb11  mbs1/x86_64/pwgen-2.07-1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm 
 55fe39a8d4c1cae15cfd0794a28c0858  mbs1/SRPMS/pwgen-2.07-1.mbs1.src.rpm
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 Type Bits/KeyID     Date       User ID
 pub  1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
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