CVE-2006-0898

Publication date

2006-02-25 11:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

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.