CVE-2006-0898

Description

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

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24954

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16802

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425966/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_38_security.html

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-15.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-996

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/488

http://secunia.com/advisories/31493

http://secunia.com/advisories/20899

http://secunia.com/advisories/19303

http://secunia.com/advisories/19187

http://secunia.com/advisories/18755

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0630.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

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