CVE-2006-0898 Information

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.

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0630.html http://secunia.com/advisories/18755 http://secunia.com/advisories/19187 http://secunia.com/advisories/19303 http://secunia.com/advisories/20899 http://secunia.com/advisories/31493 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/488 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.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425966/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16802 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24954