CVE-2013-7252 Information

Description

kwalletd in KWallet before KDE Applications 14.12.0 uses Blowfish with ECB mode instead of CBC mode when encrypting the password store which makes it easier for attackers to guess passwords via a codebook attack.

Reference

http://gaganpreet.in/blog/2013/07/24/kwallet-security-analysis/ http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/02/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/09/7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67716 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1048168 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-19 https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20150109-1.txt