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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2012-01-04 21:17:52 -0500
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2012-01-05 12:28:55 -0500
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+ o Major security workaround:
+ - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
+ than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These versions had
+ a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher padding
+ included uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
+ information to any peer with whom they made a SSLv3
+ connection. Tor does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile
+ client or server could force an SSLv3 connection in order to
+ gain information that they shouldn't have been able to get. The
+ best solution here is to upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or
+ later). But when building or running with a non-upgraded
+ OpenSSL, we should instead make sure that the bug can't happen
+ by disabling SSLv3 entirely.