Bug 428727 (CVE-2008-0299) - CVE-2008-0299 Paramiko insecure use of RandomPool
Summary: CVE-2008-0299 Paramiko insecure use of RandomPool
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-0299
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
URL: http://www.lag.net/pipermail/paramiko...
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Depends On: 428728 428729 428730
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-14 20:55 UTC by Red Hat Product Security
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:22 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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
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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.
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