Bug 1020248 (CVE-2013-4441)

Summary:	CVE-2013-4441 pwgen: Phonemes mode has heavy bias and is enabled by default
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Ratul Gupta <ratulg>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jbowes
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Bug Depends On:	1020249, 1020250
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Description Ratul Gupta 2013-10-17 10:56:36 UTC

In pwgen, phonemes mode was found to have heavy bias and is enabled by default.

A workaround is suggested to add an argument --insecure-phonemes (or -P).

There seems to be a patch here saying it fixes most of the issues:
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=137049241132104&w=4

References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/116
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/17/12
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=137049241132104&w=4

Comment 1 Ratul Gupta 2013-10-17 10:57:50 UTC

Created pwgen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1020249]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1020250]

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:30:43 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.