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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201606-19">
  <title>kwalletd: Information disclosure</title>
  <synopsis>Kwalletd password stores are vulnerable to codebook attacks.</synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">kwalletd</product>
  <announced>2016-06-27</announced>
  <revised count="1">2016-06-27</revised>
  <bug>496768</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="kde-apps/kwalletd" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.14.3-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.14.3-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Kwalletd is is a credentials management application for KDE.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Kwalletd in KWallet uses Blowfish with ECB mode instead of CBC mode when
      encrypting the password store.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Local attackers, with access to the password store, could conduct a
      codebook attack in order to obtain confidential passwords.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All kwalletd users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=kde-apps/kwalletd-4.14.3-r1"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-7252">CVE-2013-7252</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-05-11T16:07:07Z">K_F</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-06-27T22:45:32Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>