Bug 428727 (CVE-2008-0299)

Summary:	CVE-2008-0299 Paramiko insecure use of RandomPool
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	shahms
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Patch, Reopened, Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.lag.net/pipermail/paramiko/2008-January/000599.html
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Fixed In Version:	1.7.1-3.fc8	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2010-12-23 16:16:23 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	428728, 428729, 428730
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2008-01-14 20:55:42 UTC

Description of problem:

Programs that maintain multiple simultaneous paramiko connections        
(Transport instances) via forking or threading may be vulnerable to attacks on
paramiko's random number generator. See URL for details.

http://www.lag.net/pipermail/paramiko/2008-January/000599.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460706

Comment 2 Lubomir Kundrak 2008-01-14 20:59:37 UTC

CVE Identifier for this issue was requested.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-01-15 22:56:08 UTC

python-paramiko-1.7.1-3.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-01-15 23:12:18 UTC

python-paramiko-1.7.1-3.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2009-10-23 19:04:46 UTC

Reporter changed to security-response-team by request of Jay Turner.