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Debian: CVE-2024-13939: libstring-compare-constanttime-perl -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2024-13939: libstring-compare-constanttime-perl -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
03/28/2025
Created
05/16/2025
Added
05/15/2025
Modified
05/15/2025

Description

String::Compare::ConstantTime for Perl through 0.321 is vulnerable to timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string. As stated in the documentation: "If the lengths of the strings are different, because equals returns false right away the size of the secret string may be leaked (but not its contents)." This is similar to CVE-2020-36829

Solution(s)

  • no-fix-debian-deb-package

References

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