CVE-2016-2183

CVE Details

Release Date:2018-07-30

Description


The DES and Triple DES ciphers, as used in the TLS, SSH, and IPSecprotocols and other protocols and products, have a birthday bound of approximately four billion blocks, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data via a birthday attack against a long-duration encrypted session, as demonstrated by an HTTPS session using Triple DES in CBC mode, aka a Sweet32 attack.

See more information about CVE-2016-2183 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD


CVSS v2.0 metrics


NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score: 5 Base Metrics: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector: Network Attack Complexity: Low
Authentication: None required Confidentiality Impact: Partial
Integrity Impact: None Availability Impact: None

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (openssl)ELSA-2016-36272016-10-13
Oracle Linux version 7 (python)ELSA-2018-21232018-07-03
Oracle VM version 3.2 (openssl)OVMSA-2016-01412016-10-13



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