-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 _______________________________________________________________________ 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> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFUrpgymqjQ0CJFipgRAnt5AKDHR3nkSIBTR3l43gNNLLo+jJ1pAQCg8IH2 03X6s3Fg1et6eZH3r+2HGn4= =8Vld -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
