Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430522 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@xxxxxxxxxx ReportedBy: mjc@xxxxxxxxxx CC: andreas@xxxxxxxxx,fedora-perl-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx 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 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing list Fedora-perl-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-perl-devel-list
