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Bug#1101502: libstring-compare-constanttime-perl: CVE-2024-13939

From Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#1101502: libstring-compare-constanttime-perl: CVE-2024-13939
Date 2025-03-28 15:50 +0100
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Source: libstring-compare-constanttime-perl
X-Debbugs-CC: team@security.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for libstring-compare-constanttime-perl.

CVE-2024-13939[0]:
| 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

https://metacpan.org/release/FRACTAL/String-Compare-ConstantTime-0.321/view/lib/String/Compare/ConstantTime.pm#TIMING-SIDE-CHANNEL
 

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-13939
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13939

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

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Bug#1101502: libstring-compare-constanttime-perl: CVE-2024-13939 Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2025-03-28 15:50 +0100
  Bug#1101502: libstring-compare-constanttime-perl: CVE-2024-13939 Sylvain Beucler <beuc@beuc.net> - 2025-04-12 11:40 +0200
  Bug#1101502: fixed in libstring-compare-constanttime-perl 0.321-3 Sylvain Beucler <beuc@beuc.net> - 2025-04-12 17:50 +0200
    Bug#1101502: fixed in libstring-compare-constanttime-perl 0.321-3 Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2025-04-12 21:00 +0200

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