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CVE request: openldap does not honor TLSCipherSuite configuration option
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen () redhat com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 15:54:02 -0600
Could a CVE be assigned to this issue? It was reported that OpenLDAP, when using the Mozilla NSS backend, would ignore any TLSCipherSuite configuration settings. When the TLSCipherSuite setting is configured, OpenLDAP would use the default cipher suite, ignoring the setting. While the default cipher suite contains some weak ciphers (e.g. MD5-based), it is still not easy to break the encryption to obtain sensitive information. However, if an administrator wishes to enforce the use of stronger ciphers by overriding the defaults using TLSCipherSuite, they should be able to trust that, when the configuration items is in place, the stronger ciphers are used. Due to this flaw, that is not the case. References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825875 http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi?findid=7285 http://www.openldap.org/devel/gitweb.cgi?p=openldap.git;a=commit;h=2c2bb2e Thanks. --Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team
Current thread:
- CVE request: openldap does not honor TLSCipherSuite configuration option Vincent Danen (Jun 05)
- Re: CVE request: openldap does not honor TLSCipherSuite configuration option Kurt Seifried (Jun 05)
- Re: CVE request: openldap does not honor TLSCipherSuite configuration option Henri Salo (Jun 05)