Bug 1020220 (CVE-2013-4440) - CVE-2013-4440 pwgen: non-tty passwords are trivially weak by default
Summary: CVE-2013-4440 pwgen: non-tty passwords are trivially weak by default
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2013-4440
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1020222 1020223
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-10-17 10:13 UTC by Ratul Gupta
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:30:42 UTC
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Description Ratul Gupta 2013-10-17 10:13:31 UTC
Pwgen was found to generate weak non-tty passwords by default, which could be brute-forced with a commendable success rate, which could raise security concerns.

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

Comment 1 Ratul Gupta 2013-10-17 10:14:38 UTC
Created pwgen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1020222]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1020223]

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-12-13 09:36:29 UTC
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.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-12-15 04:34:42 UTC
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.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-12-17 04:42:04 UTC
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.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-12-21 17:43:01 UTC
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.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2014-12-21 17:43:15 UTC
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.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2014-12-21 17:43:30 UTC
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.

Comment 9 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:30:42 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.


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