Bug 837016 (CVE-2012-3818) - CVE-2012-3818 revelation (fpm exporter): Password not encrypted when exporting a file
Summary: CVE-2012-3818 revelation (fpm exporter): Password not encrypted when exportin...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-3818
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 837017 837019
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-07-02 14:14 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-08-22 16:16:08 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-07-02 14:14:35 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2012-3818 to the following vulnerability:

The fpm exporter in Revelation 0.4.13-2 and earlier encrypts the version number but not the password when exporting a file, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information.

References:
[1] http://als.regnet.cz/fpm2/feedback/2
[2] http://knoxin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/revelation-password-manager-considered.html

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-07-02 14:16:25 UTC
This issue affects the versions of the revelation package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16 and 17. Please schedule an update once final upstream patch available.

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This issue affects the version of the revelation package, as shipped with Fedora EPEL 5. Please schedule an update once final upstream patch available.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-07-02 14:17:20 UTC
Created revelation tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 837017]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 837019]

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-07-02 14:19:13 UTC
Due the patch itself - upstream v0.14.4 release NEWS contains:

2012-07-01: Revelation 0.4.14
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New features:
- Added a new file encryption format using PBKDF2 #61 [Mikel Olasagasti Uranga]
- Warn users about old file encryption format being non-secure
- Moved applet to own dir to fix 'make dist'

thus maybe adding a warning would be sufficient till there is upstream old-format fix.

Comment 4 Jef Spaleta 2012-07-02 20:37:10 UTC
yes... pre-release scratch build has the patch..... 
rolling new scratch build and rawhide build with the new release today.

-jef

Comment 5 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-07-03 07:59:47 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> rolling new scratch build and rawhide build with the new release today.

Thanks for that, Jan.

> 
> -jef


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