[Openstack-security] [Bug 1246159] Re: seed method brings potential security issue
Russell Bryant
1246159 at bugs.launchpad.net
Fri Feb 7 18:15:49 UTC 2014
marked as invalid for nova, as this is talking about cinder code
** Changed in: nova
Status: New => Invalid
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Title:
seed method brings potential security issue
Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
Invalid
Status in OpenStack Security Advisories:
Invalid
Bug description:
In the /cinder/transfer/apil.py, line 86, the source code is below
random.seed(datetime.datetime.now().microsecond)
This code is using seed 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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