CVE-2006-1378 Information

Description

PasswordSafe 3.0 beta when running on Windows before XP uses a weak random number generator (C++ rand function) during generation of the database encryption key which makes it easier for attackers to decrypt the database and steal passwords by generating keys for all possible rand() seed values and conducting a known plaintext attack.

Reference

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/618 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428552/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445509/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17200 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25429