Red Hat Security Blog: January 2016 archives
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The SLOTH attack and IKE/IPsec
Executive Summary: The IKE daemons in RHEL7 (libreswan) and RHEL6 (openswan) are not vulnerable to the SLOTH attack. But the attack is still interesting to look at . The SLOTH attack released today is a new transcript collision attack against some security protocols that use weak or broken hashes such as MD5 or SHA1. While it mostly focuses on the issues found in TLS, it also mentions weaknesses in the "Internet Key Exchange" (IKE) protocol used for IPsec VPNs. While the TLS findings are very...
