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