CVE-2016-2183

CVE Details

Release Date:	2018-07-30
Impact:	None	What is this?

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.

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.0
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (openssl)	ELSA-2016-3627	2016-10-13
Oracle Linux version 7 (python)	ELSA-2018-2123	2018-07-03
Oracle VM version 3.2 (openssl)	OVMSA-2016-0141	2016-10-13