Bug 1020272 (CVE-2013-4443)
Summary: | CVE-2013-4443 pwgen: Secure mode has bias towards numbers and uppercase letters | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Ratul Gupta <ratulg> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | jbowes |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2013-10-23 05:14:23 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1020273, 1020274 | ||
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Description
Ratul Gupta
2013-10-17 11:11:34 UTC
Created pwgen tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1020273] Affects: epel-all [bug 1020274] It was found that if you generated 1 extremely long password (rather than a ton of passwords) and made a histogram, there would be no bias, hence this CVE is **REJECTED**. Reference: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/162 |