MGASA-2014-0535

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MGASA-2014-0535

Summary: Updated pwgen package fixes security vulnerabilities

Details: 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: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0535.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14809, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146237.html