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Fedora 31: FEDORA-2020-a5b60d0c2b Moderate: Makepasswd Password Generation

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Calendar Grey January 11, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora update fixes makepasswd bug with moderate severity, improving password generation security features.
Fixes bugzilla 1126076

Summary

Makepasswd generates (pseudo-)random passwords of a desired length.

Fixes bugzilla 1126076

* Fri Jan 3 2020 Johan Swensson - 0.5.3-18

- Fixes bugzilla 1126076

[ 1 ] Bug #1771883 - CVE-2010-2247 makepasswd: default settin generate insecure passwords [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1771883

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-a5b60d0c2b' at the command

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https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 0.5.3
Release: 18.fc31
URL: Summary : Generates (pseudo-)random passwords of a desired length

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