EUVD-2001-1355

Malware in sbrugna...

Security update for grub2 (important)

Fix buffer overflows when reading username and password. bsc956631, CVE-2015-8370 - Check MS-DOS header to find PE file header. bsc954126 - Use dirname for copying Xen kernel and initrd to esp. bsc955493 - Fix reading password by grub2-mkpasswd-pbdk2 without controlling tty. bsc954519 - Add luks,...

CVE-2001-1467

mkpasswd in expect 5.2.8, as used by Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7.0, seeds its random number generator with its process ID, which limits the space of possible seeds and makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute force password attacks...

CVE-2001-1467

The CVE-2001-1467 issue affects mkpasswd in expect 5.2.8 as used by Red Hat Linux 6.2–7.0. The underlying problem is that the random number generator is seeded with the process ID, reducing the seed space and enabling easier brute-force password attacks. The associated metrics indicate a HIGH sev...

CVE-2001-1467

mkpasswd in expect 5.2.8, as used by Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7.0, seeds its random number generator with its process ID, which limits the space of possible seeds and makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute force password attacks...

CVE-2001-1374

expect before 5.32 searches for its libraries in /var/tmp before other directories, which could allow local users to gain root privileges via a Trojan horse library that is accessed by mkpasswd...

Дырка в mkpasswd из expect (weak password generation)

Алгоритм генерации случайного пароля позволяет всего 32193 комбинаций...

mkpasswd: acutally its worse than just not many passwords

due to a fault in expect the interpreter that runs the mkpasswd script it is trivially easy to cause arbitrary commands to be executed by someone else. under RH7.0 anyway the search path for libs for it includes /var/tmp/ check out http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=28224 for...

flaw in RH ``mkpasswd'' command

Hey, The mkpasswd password generator that ships in the expect'' package of at least RedHat 6.2 generates only a relatively small number 2^15 for the default password length of passwords. Presumably this is a result of trying to apply too many rules of what is a good'' password to the generation...

CVE-2001-1467

mkpasswd in expect 5.2.8, as used by Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7.0, seeds its random number generator with its process ID, which limits the space of possible seeds and makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute force password attacks...