Paramiko: Information disclosure

Paramiko: Information disclosure Unsafe randomness usage in Paramiko may allow access to sensitive information. paramiko March 03, 2008 March 03, 2008: 01 205777 remote 1.7.2 1.7.2

Paramiko is a Secure Shell Server implementation written in Python.

Dwayne C. Litzenberger reported that the file "common.py" does not properly use RandomPool when using threads or forked processes.

A remote attacker could predict the values generated by applications using Paramiko for encryption purposes, potentially gaining access to sensitive information.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Paramiko users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/paramiko-1.7.2"

CVE-2008-0299 jaervosz jaervosz p-y