Dell BSAFE™ Micro Edition Suite 5.0.1 Release Advisory

Summary: The Dell BSAFE™ Product Team announces the general availability of Dell BSAFE Micro Edition Suite 5.0.1.

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Initially published on April 14, 2023

 

Announcement

The Dell BSAFE Product Team announces the general availability of Dell BSAFE Micro Edition Suite 5.0.1. This release embeds the Dell BSAFE Crypto-C Micro Edition 4.1.5 FIPS 140-2 cryptographic module.

This release addresses a medium security vulnerability. Details about this vulnerability are available in Dell Security Advisory DSA-2023-120: Dell BSAFE™ Micro Edition Suite Security Update

This release is designed to include the following new features:
  • Added support for a user-defined certificate verification callback with the secure connection PKIX authentication plugin.
  • Allow Pre-Shared Key (PSK) secure connections to issue tickets.
This release also includes the following changes:
  • TLSv1.2 cipher suites based on the SHA-1 digest are removed from the default cipher suite list for Secure Connections.
  • Updated environment and system support.
  • Bugfixes.
More details about these changes are available in the Release Notes.

For additional documentation, downloads, and more, contact Dell Customer Support

Affected Products

BSAFE Micro Edition Suite
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Article Number: 000212406
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 14 Apr 2023
Version:  1
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