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Title: RedHat Linux 6.1 ORBit and esound Weak Authentication Vulnerability

Severity: MODERATE

Description:

From Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-1999:058-01

ORBit and esound used a source of random data that was easily guessable, possibly allowing an attacker with local access to guess the authentication keys used to control access to these services.

Affected Products:

  • RedHat Linux 6.1.0
  • RedHat Linux 6.1.0 i386
  • RedHat Linux 6.1.0 sparc
  • RedHat ORBit-0.4.95-2.i386.rpm 0.0.0
  • RedHat ORBit-devel-0.4.95-2.i386.rpm 0.0.0
  • RedHat esound-0.2.14-1.i386.rpm
  • RedHat esound-devel-0.2.14-1.i386.rpm

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