CVE-2013-2120

CVE-2013-2120 affects the KDE Paste Applet in kdeplasma-addons up to version prior to 4.10.5 . The vulnerability stems from the %{password(...)} macro in pastemacroexpander.cpp, which does not generate passwords securely, allowing context-dependent attackers to bypass authentication via a brute-f...

KDE Paste applet weak password generation

Weak PRNG...

KDE Paste Applet

The paste applet included with kdeplasma-addons allows you to define macros that will copy some generated data into the clipboard, using simple macros to define the source and format of the data. The available macros include password... which generates "random" passwords. Here is the code that...