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FreeBSD: mbedTLS/PolarSSL -- SLOTH attack on TLS 1.2 server authentication

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FreeBSD: mbedTLS/PolarSSL -- SLOTH attack on TLS 1.2 server authentication

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/04/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/08/2016
Modified
01/08/2016

Description

ARM Limited reports: MD5 handshake signatures in TLS 1.2 are vulnerable to the SLOTH attack on TLS 1.2 server authentication. They have been disabled by default. Other attacks from the SLOTH paper do not apply to any version of mbed TLS or PolarSSL.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-mbedtls
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-polarssl13

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