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Fedora alert FEDORA-2014-16368 (pwgen)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: pwgen-2.07-1.fc20
Date:  Sat, 13 Dec 2014 09:36:12 +0000
Message-ID:  <20141213093637.0BFB860CBEF6@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2014-16368 2014-12-06 01:54:56 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : pwgen Product : Fedora 20 Version : 2.07 Release : 1.fc20 URL : http://sf.net/projects/pwgen Summary : Automatic password generation Description : pwgen generates random, meaningless but pronounceable passwords. These passwords contain either only lowercase letters, or upper and lower case, or upper case, lower case and numeric digits. Upper case letters and numeric digits are placed in a way that eases memorizing the password. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to 2.07 (bug 1159526) fixes: - CVE-2013-4440 (bug 1020222, 1020223) - CVE-2013-4442 (bug 1020259, 1020261) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Dec 5 2014 Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com> - 2.07-1 - Update to 2.07 (bug 1159526) fixes: CVE-2013-4440 (bug 1020222, 1020223) CVE-2013-4442 (bug 1020259, 1020261) * Sun Aug 17 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.06-12 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild * Sat Jun 7 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.06-11 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1020220 - CVE-2013-4440 pwgen: non-tty passwords are trivially weak by default https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1020220 [ 2 ] Bug #1020258 - CVE-2013-4442 pwgen: silent fallback to insecure entropy https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1020258 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update pwgen' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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