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A makepasswd security update has been released for Fedora 31



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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-a5b60d0c2b
2020-01-12 01:40:13.411211
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Name : makepasswd
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 0.5.3
Release : 18.fc31
URL :   http://people.defora.org/~khorben/projects/makepasswd/
Summary : Generates (pseudo-)random passwords of a desired length
Description :
Makepasswd generates (pseudo-)random passwords of a desired length.

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Update Information:

Fixes bugzilla 1126076
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jan 3 2020 Johan Swensson - 0.5.3-18
- Fixes bugzilla 1126076
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1771883 - CVE-2010-2247 makepasswd: default settin generate insecure passwords [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1771883
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-a5b60d0c2b' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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