Bug 863974 (CVE-2014-0083)

Summary:	VUL-1: CVE-2014-0083: rubygem-net-ldap: weak salt in password generation
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Alexander Bergmann <abergmann>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	jsegitz
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Alexander Bergmann 2014-02-14 09:55:52 UTC

The salting inside password.rb is insufficient as the random salt can only be between 0 and 999. 

> salt = (rand * 1000).to_i.to_s

SLE and openSUSE are not affected as the salting feature is not included.


CVE-2014-0083 was assigned to this issue.

References:
https://github.com/ruby-ldap/ruby-net-ldap/blob/master/lib/net/ldap/password.rb
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-0083
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1065086

Comment 1 Alexander Bergmann 2014-02-14 09:56:20 UTC

Closed. Fixed upstream.