CVE-2006-0898 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-0898 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.6
Vector	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 153627 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2006:015, published Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:45:44 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:44 2025