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PYSEC-2008-8

Details

common.py in Paramiko 1.7.1 and earlier, when using threads or forked processes, does not properly use RandomPool, which allows one session to obtain sensitive information from another session by predicting the state of the pool.

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Affected packages

PyPI / paramiko

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 1.7.2

Fix pip install --upgrade 'paramiko>=1.7.2'

References

http://people.debian.org/~nion/nmu-diff/paramiko-1.6.4-1_1.6.4-1.1.patch [WEB]
http://www.lag.net/pipermail/paramiko/2008-January/000599.html [WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428727 [REPORT]
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460706 [WEB]
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00529.html [WEB]
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00594.html [WEB]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27307 [WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/28488 [ADVISORY]
http://secunia.com/advisories/28510 [ADVISORY]
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-07.xml [ADVISORY]
http://secunia.com/advisories/29168 [ADVISORY]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39749 [WEB]