Secunia Security Advisory - Daniel C. Litzenberger has reported a weakness in DAR, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to disclose certain information.
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TITLE:
DAR Blowfish IV Collision Weakness
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25953
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25953/
CRITICAL:
Not critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information
WHERE:
Local system
SOFTWARE:
DAR 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/14796/
DESCRIPTION:
Daniel C. Litzenberger has reported a weakness in DAR, which can
potentially be exploited by malicious people to disclose certain
information.
The weakness is caused due to an error in the blowfish
implementation, which leads to frequent IV collisions. This can
potentially be exploited to disclose information about the encrypted
data via watermarking attacks.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.3.4.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Daniel C. Litzenberger
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65612
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425335
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