Bug 1335920

Summary:	NSS: Disable TLS connections with less than 1023-bit DH parameters
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmavrogi>
Component:	nss	Assignee:	Daiki Ueno <dueno>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Hubert Kario <hkario>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:	Mirek Jahoda <mjahoda>
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.4	CC:	dmoessne, hkario, kengert, mgrepl, mjahoda, nss-nspr-maint, qe-baseos-security, rrelyea, sdordevi, szidek, tmraz
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:	nss-3.28.4-4.el7	Doc Type:	Deprecated Functionality
Doc Text:	NSS clients using TLS with less than 1024-bit DH are not allowed This change prevents NSS clients from connecting to servers with Diffie-Hellman (DH) parameters less than 1024 bits. This ensures that allowed clients using NSS are not vulnerable to attacks such as the LOGJAM attack. A system administrator can enable shorter DH parameter support by modifying the `/etc/pki/nss-legacy/nss-rhel7.config` policy configuration file to: library= name=Policy NSS=flags=policyOnly,moduleDB config="allow=DH-MIN=767:DSA-MIN=767:RSA-MIN=767" Note that an empty line is required at the end of the file.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	1335915
Clones:	1335921 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2017-08-01 16:47:42 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1377248, 1335929

Description Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 2016-05-13 14:27:19 UTC

RHEL includes several cryptographic components who's security doesn't remain constant over time. Algorithms such as (cryptographic) hashing and encryption typically have a lifetime after which they are considered either too risky to use or plain insecure. That would mean we need to phase out such algorithms from the default settings, or completely disable if they could cause irreparable issue. 

This bug is about disabling any TLS connections which utilize less than 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman parameters, while at the same hand providing a configuration method for these parameters to be allowed when needed.

For future extensibility in RHEL-7 it is recommended for any introduced configuration method to be re-usable for future algorithm or parameter deprecation (e.g., SHA1 or less than 1024-bit RSA/DH parameters), and ideally part of upstream.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 16:47:42 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2017:1977

Comment 14 daniel 2017-09-25 09:57:48 UTC

cannot find this in release docs, could someone please point me to where this is stated in the official docs? 
Other wise I am inclined to reopen this bug until docs text is included in release notes

Comment 15 Mirek Jahoda 2017-09-25 12:55:35 UTC

Should be in the Deprecated Functionality chapter:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.4_Release_Notes/chap-Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-7.4_Release_Notes-Deprecated_Functionality.html