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Bug#: 126048
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Assigned To: Gentoo Security <security@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Stefan Cornelius (RETIRED) <dercorny@gentoo.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2006-03-13 09:33 0000 
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.

------- Comment #1 From Stefan Cornelius (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 09:34:25 0000 ------- 
Perl, please provide fixed ebuilds, thank you.

------- Comment #2 From Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 11:08:19 0000 ------- 
bumped to 2.17

------- Comment #3 From Stefan Cornelius (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 11:10:51 0000 ------- 
arches, please test and mark stable, thanks

------- Comment #4 From Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 12:04:56 0000 ------- 
Stable on hppa & sparc (yeah i have an hppa box again).

------- Comment #5 From Fernando J. Pereda (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 12:21:34 0000 ------- 
Giving Alpha keywords for free.. who else wants another one ?

------- Comment #6 From Chris White (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 12:58:03 0000 ------- 
amd64 stable.
ppc stable.

------- Comment #7 From Chris White (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 13:37:52 0000 ------- 
x86 stable.

------- Comment #8 From Stefan Cornelius (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 13:39:17 0000 ------- 
ready for glsa vote. I tend to say yes - weak crypto is no funny thing.

------- Comment #9 From Markus Rothe 2006-03-13 17:23:58 0000 ------- 
stable on ppc64, too

------- Comment #10 From Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2006-03-14 13:26:08 0000 ------- 
I vote yes.

------- Comment #11 From Stefan Cornelius (RETIRED) 2006-03-17 10:25:51 0000 ------- 
GLSA 200603-15

Thanks everybody
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