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perl-Crypt-CBC weaker encryption with some ciphers

Published Feb 25, 2006

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.

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Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

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Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (18)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Feb 25, 2006
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Feb 25, 2006
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Feb 23, 2006