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IBM HTTP Server: CVE-2016-2183: Sweet32:Birthday attack in TLS

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IBM HTTP Server: CVE-2016-2183: Sweet32:Birthday attack in TLS

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/31/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/22/2018
Modified
11/26/2021

Description

The DES and Triple DES ciphers, as used in the TLS, SSH, and IPSec protocols 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.

Solution(s)

  • ibm-http_server-apply-fix-pack-8_0_0_15
  • ibm-http_server-apply-fix-pack-8_5_5_13
  • ibm-http_server-apply-fix-pack-9_0_0_6
  • ibm-http_server-apply-interim-fix-pi84868-for-8_0
  • ibm-http_server-apply-interim-fix-pi84868-for-8_5
  • ibm-http_server-apply-interim-fix-pi84868-for-9_0

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