CVE-2007-3528

The blowfish mode in DAR before 2.3.4 uses weak Blowfish-CBC cryptography by (1) discarding random bits by the blowfish::make_ivec function in libdar/crypto.cpp that results in predictable and repeating IV values, and (2) direct use of a password for keying, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to decrypt files.

Date published : 2007-07-03

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24930

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425335