Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2024-2467 (2024-04-25)

A timing-based side-channel flaw exists in the perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA package, which could be sufficient to recover plaintext across a network in a Bleichenbacher-style attack. To achieve successful decryption, an attacker would have to be able to send a large number of trial messages. The vulnerability affects the legacy PKCS#1v1.5 RSA encryption padding mode.

Changes for version 0.19

  • Revert back to old declaration style so that we no longer break under perl 5.005 (spotted by Rob Brown <bbb@cpan.org>).
  • Add some needed use statements in legacy.t and rsa.t (patch submitted by Rob Brown).
  • Fix typo in docs spotted by Daniel Drown <dan@drown.org>
  • Update copyright dates.

Modules

RSA encoding and decoding, using the openSSL libraries