National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0898

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BID

Name: 16802

Type: Patch Information

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

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060223 Vulnerability in Crypt::CBC Perl module, versions <= 2.16

Type: Advisory

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

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31493

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31493

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0630

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

External Source: XF

Name: crypt-cbc-header-weak-encryption(24954)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24954

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0261

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

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2006:015

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

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200603-15

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

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-996

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

External Source: SREASON

Name: 488

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/488

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20899

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20899

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 19303

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/19303

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 19187

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/19187

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 18755

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/18755