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GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2014-535
GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2014-535
Advisory Published
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).
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mageia | pwgen | 0 (affected), 2.07-1.mga4 (unaffected) | — |
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