CVE-2007-3528 Information

Description

The blowfish mode in DAR before 2.3.4 uses weak Blowfish-CBC cryptography by (1) discarding random bits by the blowfish::make_ivec function in libdar/crypto.cpp that results in predictable and repeating IV values and (2) direct use of a password for keying which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to decrypt files.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425335 http://osvdb.org/38189 http://osvdb.org/38190 http://secunia.com/advisories/25953 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24930 https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=711619 https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=711620 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1730439&group_id=65612&atid=511612