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Secunia Advisory SA13566

PERL Crypt::ECB Module ASCII "0" Encoding Security Issue
Secunia Advisory SA13566
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Release Date 2004-12-21
   
Popularity 12,365 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Security Bypass
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Unpatched
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
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Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Software:
Crypt::ECB 1.x (module for Perl)
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

Description

Bennett R. Samowich has discovered a security issue in Crypt::ECB, which makes it easier for malicious people to brute force passwords.

The security issue is caused due to an error, where plain texts containing the ASCII character "0" is incorrectly encoded. This results in a weaker encryption and encoding collisions and may e.g. make it easier to brute force passwords.

The issue has been confirmed on version 1.1. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Edit the source code to ensure that the ASCII character "0" is correctly handled.

Provided and/or discovered by
Bennett R. Samowich

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