Bug 126048 – dev-perl/crypt-cbc: insecure initialization vector

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Stefan Cornelius (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 09:33:13 UTC]

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 Stefan Cornelius (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 09:34:25 UTC]

Perl, please provide fixed ebuilds, thank you.

[Comment 2 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 11:08:19 UTC]

bumped to 2.17

[Comment 3 Stefan Cornelius (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 11:10:51 UTC]

arches, please test and mark stable, thanks

[Comment 4 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 12:04:56 UTC]

Stable on hppa & sparc (yeah i have an hppa box again).

[Comment 5 Fernando J. Pereda (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 12:21:34 UTC]

Giving Alpha keywords for free.. who else wants another one ?

[Comment 6 Chris White (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 12:58:03 UTC]

amd64 stable.
ppc stable.

[Comment 7 Chris White (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 13:37:52 UTC]

x86 stable.

[Comment 8 Stefan Cornelius (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 13:39:17 UTC]

ready for glsa vote. I tend to say yes - weak crypto is no funny thing.

[Comment 9 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 17:23:58 UTC]

stable on ppc64, too

[Comment 10 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2006-03-14 13:26:08 UTC]

I vote yes.

[Comment 11 Stefan Cornelius (RETIRED) 2006-03-17 10:25:51 UTC]

GLSA 200603-15

Thanks everybody