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
Created pwgen tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1020222] Affects: epel-all [bug 1020223]
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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