SSG reaction wrt to "POODLE" CVE flaw required?

Jan Lieskovsky jlieskov at redhat.com
Wed Oct 15 14:17:34 UTC 2014


Hello folks,

  in relation to the recent SSLv3 CVE-2014-3566 / "POODLE" flaw:
  [1] http://fedoramagazine.org/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-sslv3-poodle-flaw-cve-2014-3566/

got wondering if there's anything SSG should do to react against it.
Possibly to add / update system service rules checking for system SSL
version that it is higher than SSLv3? [1] suggest httpd would be
one candidate, but I am sure there would be more of them. Should this be
investigated further & particular rules updated?

Thanks && Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Technologies Team

P.S.: For those possibly wondering the proposal is not to add rule checking
      particular package version is >= than the updated version disabling
      use of SSLv3 (IOW not to perform the CVE check itself). But rather
      check configuration of possibly affected system services, if they
      aren't using SSLv3 via their configuration files (since setting
      default SSL version higher than SSLv3 is one thing, but actually
      checking if that version isn't enabled again [by administrator] an another one).


More information about the scap-security-guide mailing list