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Bug 1335931 - gnutls: Disable TLS connections with less than 1024-bit DH parameters
gnutls: Disable TLS connections with less than 1024-bit DH parameters
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gnutls (Show other bugs)
7.4
Unspecified Unspecified
unspecified Severity unspecified
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Assigned To: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
Stefan Dordevic
Mirek Jahoda
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Blocks: 1377248 1335929
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Reported: 2016-05-13 10:50 EDT by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
Modified: 2017-08-01 04:48 EDT (History)
3 users (show)

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Fixed In Version: gnutls-3.3.26-1.el7
Doc Type: Deprecated Functionality
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*GnuTLS* clients will not negotiate less than 1024-bit Diffie Hellman parameters This change prevents GNU Transport Layer Security (GnuTLS) clients from connecting to servers with Diffie-Hellman (DH) parameters less than 1024 bits. This ensures that allowed clients using *GnuTLS* are not vulnerable to attacks such as the LOGJAM attack. On applications which accept directly priority string from the user or configuration, this change can be reverted by appending the priority string %PROFILE_VERY_WEAK to the used priority string.
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Last Closed: 2017-08-01 04:48:22 EDT
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Tracker ID Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2292 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: gnutls security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2017-08-01 08:39:15 EDT

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Description Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 2016-05-13 10:50:13 EDT
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 5 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 04:48:22 EDT
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/RHSA-2017:2292

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