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mageiaGentoo FoundationMGASA-2014-0535
HistoryDec 19, 2014 - 6:06 p.m.

Updated pwgen package fixes security vulnerabilities

2014-12-1918:06:35
Gentoo Foundation
advisories.mageia.org
7

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

75.4%

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).

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Mageia4noarchpwgen< 2.07-1pwgen-2.07-1.mga4

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

75.4%