Debian Security Advisory
DSA-996-1 libcrypt-cbc-perl -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 13 Mar 2006
- Affected Packages:
- libcrypt-cbc-perl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-0898.
- More information:
-
Lincoln Stein discovered that the Perl Crypt::CBC module produces weak ciphertext when used with block encryption algorithms with blocksize > 8 bytes.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a Crypt::CBC module.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.12-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.17-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libcrypt-cbc-perl package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libc/libcrypt-cbc-perl/libcrypt-cbc-perl_2.12-1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libc/libcrypt-cbc-perl/libcrypt-cbc-perl_2.12-1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libc/libcrypt-cbc-perl/libcrypt-cbc-perl_2.12.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libc/libcrypt-cbc-perl/libcrypt-cbc-perl_2.12-1sarge1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libc/libcrypt-cbc-perl/libcrypt-cbc-perl_2.12-1sarge1_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.