Bug 430522 (CVE-2006-0898)

Summary: CVE-2006-0898 perl-Crypt-CBC weaker encryption with some ciphers
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-0898
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Fixed In Version: 2.17-1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On: 430732, 430733, 430734, 445327, 449337    
Bug Blocks: 444136    

Description Mark J. Cox 2008-01-28 16:20:55 UTC 
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