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Mageia: MGASA-2020-0038 Moderate: Makepasswd Password Length Adjustment

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia Advisory MGASA-2020-0039 focuses on enhancing encryption standards in openSSL, modifying default algorithms to improve data integrity.

Updated makepasswd fix insecure default length of password By default, makepasswd generates password with a length between 6 to 8 characters (48 to 64bits)

Summary

Description: Updated makepasswd fix insecure default length of password
By default, makepasswd generates password with a length between 6 to 8 characters (48 to 64bits). This update raise the default to 16 characters (128 bits).
The length can be changed at runtime with the -l option.

References

- 26060 – makepasswd new security issue CVE-2010-2247

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

- CVE -CVE-2010-2247

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Resolution

SRPMS

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Publication date: 13 Jan 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0038.html
CVE: CVE-2010-2247

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security advisory security issue update default settings mageia makepasswd password length

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