Dell BSAFE™ SSL-J 6.5.1 Release Advisory

Summary: The Dell BSAFE™ Product Team announces the general availability of Dell BSAFE SSL-J 6.5.1.

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Initially published on July 10, 2023

Announcement

The Dell BSAFE Product Team announces the general availability of Dell BSAFE SSL-J 6.5.1. This release includes Dell BSAFE Crypto-J 6.2.6.2 with Crypto-J JSAFE and JCE Software FIPS 140-2 Module version 6.2.5.

This release addresses a medium security vulnerability. Details about this vulnerability are available in Dell Security Advisory DSA-2023-156: Dell BSAFE 7.1.1 and SSL-J 6.5.1 Security Update

In this release, the default cipher suite list has been updated to remove cipher suites using AES-CBC for encryption or DHE for key agreement.

This release also adds support for the following JVM property:
  • jdk.tls.namedGroups
 This release also addresses the following items:
  • Better handling of TLS handshakes when using non-FIPS approved algorithms
  • Deprecation of SSLSession.getPeerCertificateChain()
  • Minor bugfixes

For additional documentation, downloads, and more, contact Dell Customer Support
July 19, 2023 update: DSA title updated.

Affected Products

BSAFE SSL-J
Article Properties
Article Number: 000215682
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 19 Jul 2023
Version:  3
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