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Bug 1337461 - Disable/remove export ciphersuites in OpenSSL
Summary: Disable/remove export ciphersuites in OpenSSL
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: openssl
Version: 6.9
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Stanislav Zidek
Mirek Jahoda
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 1335911 1343211
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-05-19 09:20 UTC by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
Modified: 2017-03-21 10:11 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: openssl-1.0.1e-51.el6
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.
Clone Of: 1337460
Environment:
Last Closed: 2017-03-21 10:11:44 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 1337463 0 unspecified CLOSED Disable/remove export ciphersuites in NSS 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2017:0660 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE openssl bug fix update 2017-03-21 12:33:58 UTC

Internal Links: 1337463

Description Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 2016-05-19 09:20:57 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 2 Tomas Mraz 2016-10-05 09:18:55 UTC
I've also disabled all ciphersuites that upstream disables in current openssl upstream when enable-weak-ssl-ciphers is not used. These are basically ciphers with key lengths < 128 bits which are insecure similarly to the export ciphers.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-21 10:11:44 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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017-0660.html


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