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Summary: CVE-2006-0898 perl-Crypt-CBC weaker encryption with some
ciphers
Product: Security Response
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
URL:
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-0898
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: low
Priority: low
Component: vulnerability
AssignedTo: security-response-team(a)redhat.com
ReportedBy: mjc(a)redhat.com
CC: andreas@bawue.net,fedora-perl-devel-list(a)redhat.com
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2006-0898 to the following
vulnerability:
Crypt::CBC Perl module 2.16 and earlier, when running in RandomIV mode, uses an
initialization vector (IV) of 8 bytes, which results in weaker encryption when used with a
cipher that requires a larger block size than 8 bytes, such as Rijndael.
References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/425966/100/0/threaded
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-996
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-15.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_38_security.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16802
http://secunia.com/advisories/18755
http://secunia.com/advisories/19187
http://secunia.com/advisories/19303
http://secunia.com/advisories/20899
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/488
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24954
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