[SECURITY] Fedora 44 Update: perl-Crypt-PBKDF2-0.261630-1.fc44

PBKDF2 is a secure password hashing algorithm that uses the techniques of "key strengthening" to make the complexity of a brute-force attack arbitrarily hig h. PBKDF2 uses any other cryptographic hash or cipher by convention, usually HMAC-SHA2, but Crypt::PBKDF2 is fully pluggable, and allows for...

Fedora 44 : perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 (2026-5b12cc327e)

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-5b12cc327e advisory. This update addresses a number of security issues: Change the default hash algorithm to HMAC-SHA256, and increase the default number of iterations t...

perl-Crypt-PBKDF2-0.261630-1.1 on GA media (moderate)

perl-Crypt-PBKDF2-0.261630-1.1 on GA media Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:11034-1 Rating: moderate Cross-References: CVE-2017-20240 CVE-2026-9638 CVE-2026-9641 CVSS scores: CVE-2017-20240 SUSE : 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVE-2026-9638 SUSE : 7.5...

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11034-1 perl-Crypt-PBKDF2-0.261630-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the perl-Crypt-PBKDF2-0.261630-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-20240

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Crypt::PBKDF2 versions before 0.261630 for Perl are vulnerable to timing attacks. These versions use Perl's built-in eq comparison. Discrepancies in timing coul...