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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-16406
2014-12-06 09:19:11
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Name : pwgen
Product : Fedora 21
Version : 2.07
Release : 1.fc21
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.

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Update Information:

Update to 2.07 (bug 1159526) fixes:
– CVE-2013-4440 (bug 1020222, 1020223)
– CVE-2013-4442 (bug 1020259, 1020261)

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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)
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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
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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
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