CVE-2010-5066 Information

Description

The createRandomPassword function in includes/functions_common.php in Virtual War (aka VWar) 1.6.1 R2 uses a small range of values to select the seed argument for the PHP mt_srand function which makes it easier for remote attackers to determine randomly generated passwords via a brute-force attack.

Reference

http://dmcdonald.net/vwar.txt http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Aug/235

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