Bug#726578: pwgen: Multiple vulnerabilities in passwords generation

2013-10-22 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Small updates on the assigned CVE's: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:14:23AM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > CVE-2013-4443 Secure mode has bias towards numbers and uppercase letters > > probably the least serious issue; -n guarantees at least one numeral, > -c guarantees at least one capital,

Bug#726578: pwgen: Multiple vulnerabilities in passwords generation

2013-10-17 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, I don't see that any major refactoring is needed, but rather the default assumed flags are unsafe, although changing them might be incompatible with some scripts/applications using pwgen. CVE-2013-4440 non-tty passwords are trivially weak by default should ideally stop using -0A by default i

Bug#726578: pwgen: Multiple vulnerabilities in passwords generation

2013-10-17 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi, On 16 October 2013 22:03, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > I'm not too sure how to handle that, especially for stable releases, > since it seems major refactoring might be needed to get rid of the > weaknesses and bias. I think it's best to write a script that uses makepasswd and is command-line a

Bug#726578: pwgen: Multiple vulnerabilities in passwords generation

2013-10-16 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: pwgen Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole Hi Theodore, multiple CVEs were just assigned to pwgen, following the analysis by Solar Designer and other people (see thread at http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=138015793928431&w=2) CVE-2013-4440 non-tty passwords