Friday, March 3, 2017

CVE-2008-5161:SSH Server CBC Mode Ciphers Enabled

CBC Ciphers has been declared weak but remain present in many of the servers.

Mostly ssh kept it in the default setting in its config.

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5161/

If you are paranoid user you can edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and/or /etc/ssh/ssh_config
and remove cbc ciphers from the Cipher list.

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