vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-4084168e-b531-11e5-a98c-0011d823eebd: mbedTLS/PolarSSL -- SLOTH attack on TLS 1.2 server authentication

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 7, 2016
Added
Jan 8, 2016
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

ARM Limited reports: MD5 handshake signatures in TLS 1.2 are vulnerable to the SLOTH attack on TLS 1.2 server authentication. They have been disabled by default. Other attacks from the SLOTH paper do not apply to any version of mbed TLS or PolarSSL.

Solutions

freebsd-upgrade-package-polarssl13freebsd-upgrade-package-mbedtls

References

Title
Rapid7 Labs

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