Bug 1335940

Summary: Disable/remove export ciphersuites in OpenSSL
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmavrogi>
Component: opensslAssignee: Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Stefan Dordevic <sdordevi>
Severity: high Docs Contact: Mirek Jahoda <mjahoda>
Priority: high    
Version: 7.4CC: mgrepl, sdordevi, szidek
Target Milestone: rc   
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Fixed In Version: openssl-1.0.2k-1.el7 Doc Type: Deprecated Functionality
Doc Text:
The EXPORT cipher suites in *OpenSSL* are deprecated This change removes support for the EXPORT cipher suites in the *OpenSSL* toolkit. Disabling the weak cipher suites prevents attacks such as the FREAK attack. The EXPORT cipher suites are not required in any *TLS* protocol configuration.
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Last Closed: 2017-08-01 18:16:10 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1335929, 1377248    

Description Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 2016-05-13 15:09:47 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 by default and removing the ability to negotiate the marked as EXPORT ciphersuites. It should not be possible by applications to inadvertently enable them.
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 18:16:10 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/RHBA-2017:1929