[Openstack-security] [Bug 1246160] Change abandoned on nova (master)

OpenStack Infra 1246160 at bugs.launchpad.net
Thu Aug 4 17:39:57 UTC 2016


Change abandoned by Matt Riedemann (mriedem at us.ibm.com) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/210092

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Title:
  shuffle method bring potential security issue

Status in OpenStack Compute (nova):
  In Progress
Status in OpenStack Security Advisory:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  In the /nova/utils.py, line 328, the source code is below

              r.shuffle(password)

  This code is using shuffle method to generate a random number,
  Standard random number generators should not be used to generate
  randomness used for security reasons. For security sensitive
  randomness a crytographic randomness generator that provides
  sufficient entropy should be used.

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