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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:36:42 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: python-pyrad insecurities

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On 02/15/2013 09:14 AM, Vincent Danen wrote:
> Could a CVE be assigned to the following two issues please?
> 
> #1: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=911682
> 
> Nathaniel McCallum of Red Hat reported that pyrad was using
> Python's random module in a number of places to generate
> pseudo-random data.  In the case of the authenticator data, it was
> being used to secure a password sent over the wire.  Because
> Python's random module is not really suited for this purpose (not
> random enough), it could lead to password hashing that may be
> predictable.

Please use CVE-2013-0294 for this issue.


> #2: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=911685
> 
> Nathaniel McCallum of Red Hat reported that pyrad was creating 
> serialized RADIUS packet IDs in the CreateID() function in
> packet.py. This is not suitable for RADIUS as the RFC specifies
> that the ID must not be predictable.  As a result, the ID of the
> next packet sent can be spoofed.

Please use CVE-2013-0295 for this issue.

> 
> These have been corrected in upstream's forthcoming version 2.1
> via:
> 
> https://github.com/wichert/pyrad/commit/38f74b36814ca5b1a27d9898141126af4953bee5
>
> 
> 


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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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