[ MDVSA-2015:008 ] pwgen

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:008
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/

Package : pwgen
Date : January 8, 2015
Affected: Business Server 1.0

Problem Description:

Updated pwgen package fixes security vulnerabilities:

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 (CVE-2013-4440).

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 (CVE-2013-4442).

References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4440
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4442
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0535.html

Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
fe157e3baf2e8417adfc744fb6c2fb11 mbs1/x86_64/pwgen-2.07-1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
55fe39a8d4c1cae15cfd0794a28c0858 mbs1/SRPMS/pwgen-2.07-1.mbs1.src.rpm

To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com

Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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