Debian: New Crypt::CBC packages fix cryptographic weakness
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 996-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze March 13th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : libcrypt-cbc-perl Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-0898 Lincoln Stein discovered that the Perl Crypt::CBC module produces weak ciphertext when used with block encryption algorithms with blocksize > 8 bytes. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a Crypt::CBC module. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.12-1sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.17-1. We recommend that you upgrade your libcrypt-cbc-perl package. Upgrade Instructions - --------------------wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 631 a30dd4cde44e3a484b28ad8fc1b67e38 Size/MD5 checksum: 4165 8bb65642884ea281f83026f2d98c6146 Size/MD5 checksum: 11036 27842b8ab627681b4a322610ea6184b5 Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 18162 d625af2e10974eaafb007d538a90ebad These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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