CVE-2007-6340

The connected advisory confirms CVE-2007-6340 affects LSrunasE 1.0 and Supercrypt 1.0 and explains the root cause: RC4 is used without a unique initialization vector, deriving a constant keystream across all passwords. This insecure design allows an attacker with local access to break encryption ...

Insecure Use of RC4 in LSrunasE and Supercrypt (CVE-2007-6340)

COMPASS SECURITY ADVISORY http://www.csnc.ch/ Product: LSrunasE, Supercrypt Vendor: Geert Moernaut Type: Flawed Encryption Risk: Medium Author: Daniel Roethlisberger Date: 2008-01-29 CVE Name: CVE-2007-6340 Introduction ------------ LSrunasE 1 and Supercrypt 2 are utilities used to run commands...