FKIE_CVE-2013-4442

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-12-19 15:59 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:57
Severity
Summary
Password Generator (aka Pwgen) before 2.07 uses weak pseudo generated numbers when /dev/urandom is unavailable, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to guess the numbers.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0535.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146015.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146237.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146285.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://sourceforge.net/p/pwgen/code/ci/00118ccac4656adb028504639b313d7b09e62b79/Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:008
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/06/1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/16/15
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672241
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0535.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146015.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146237.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146285.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://sourceforge.net/p/pwgen/code/ci/00118ccac4656adb028504639b313d7b09e62b79/Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:008
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/06/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/16/15
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672241
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pwgen_project pwgen *
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