Advisories » MGASA-2020-0295

Updated cloud-init packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 31 Jul 2020
Modification date: 31 Jul 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-8631 , CVE-2020-8632

Description

In cloud-init, relies on Mersenne Twister for a random password, which
makes it easier for attackers to predict passwords, because rand_str in
cloudinit/util.py calls the random.choice function (CVE-2020-8631).

In cloud-init, rand_user_password in cloudinit/config/cc_set_passwords.py
has a small default pwlen value, which makes it easier for attackers to
guess passwords (CVE-2020-8632).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26236
• https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2020/dla-2113
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8631
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8632

SRPMS

7/core

• cloud-init-0.7.5-7.1.mga7