Pwgen was found to silently falling back to use standard pseudo generated numbers on the systems that heavily use entropy. Systems, such as those with a lot of daemons providing encryption services, the entropy was found to be exhausted, which forces pwgen to fall back to use standard pseudo generated numbers. 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 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672241 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/10265
Created pwgen tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1020259] Affects: epel-all [bug 1020261]
pwgen-2.07-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
pwgen-2.07-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
pwgen-2.07-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
pwgen-2.07-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
pwgen-2.07-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
pwgen-2.07-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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