Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56403
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-996-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libcrypt-cbc-perl' package(s) announced via the DSA-996-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libcrypt-cbc-perl' package(s) announced via the DSA-996-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: 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. Affected Software/OS: 'libcrypt-cbc-perl' package(s) on Debian 3.1. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 2.6 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-0898 BugTraq ID: 16802 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16802 Bugtraq: 20060223 Vulnerability in Crypt::CBC Perl module, versions <= 2.16 (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425966/100/0/threaded Debian Security Information: DSA-996 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-996 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-15.xml http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2008:0630 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 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:015 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_38_security.html XForce ISS Database: crypt-cbc-header-weak-encryption(24954) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24954
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