| Name | CVE-2016-2183 |
| Description | The DES and Triple DES ciphers, as used in the TLS, SSH, and IPSec protocols and other protocols and products, have a birthday bound of approximately four billion blocks, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data via a birthday attack against a long-duration encrypted session, as demonstrated by an HTTPS session using Triple DES in CBC mode, aka a "Sweet32" attack. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Generic protocol issue
The CVE is assigned for the protocol flaw in the DES/3DES cipher, used as a part of the SSL/TLS protocol.
What was done in OpenSSL: https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2016/08/24/sweet32/
Python issue: https://bugs.python.org/issue27850