CVE-2006-0898

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-02-25 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Lincoln D. Stein Crypt Cbc: through 2.16; 1.00, 1.10, 1.20, 1.21, 1.22, 1.24 (+16)

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0630.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/18755
http://secunia.com/advisories/19187
http://secunia.com/advisories/19303
http://secunia.com/advisories/20899
http://secunia.com/advisories/31493
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/488
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-996
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-15.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_38_security.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425966/100/0/threaded

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