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

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

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