CVE-2001-0597

Zetetic Secure Tool for Recalling Important Passwords STRIP 0.5 and earlier for the PalmOS allows a local attacker to recover passwords via a brute force attack. This attack is made feasible by STRIP's use of SysRandom, which is seeded by TimeGetTicks, and an implementation flaw which vastly...

CVE-2001-0597

The CVE-2001-0597 entry concerns Zetetic Secure Tool for Recalling Important Passwords (STRIP) for PalmOS (0.5 and earlier). The vulnerability arises from STRIP using SysRandom seeded by TimeGetTicks, coupled with an implementation flaw that greatly reduces the password search space, enabling a l...