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Re: [Dhis2-devs] ssl vulnerability

 

If you’re running apache
The fix is to update the following line in your  SSL config usually in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf

SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3



Dan Cocos
BAO Systems
www.baosystems.com
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On Oct 15, 2014, at 1:03 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi server admins,
> 
> Google today published a vulnerability in SSL which could allow an attacker to decrypt "secure" connections:
> 
> http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.se/2014/10/this-poodle-bites-exploiting-ssl-30.html
> 
> For a dhis system the most practical solution is to simply disable SSL and rely on TLS, as it's mostly Internet Explorer 6 that does not support TLS, and DHIS 2 does not support IE 6 anyway.
> 
> I have upgraded the nginx installation docs here. To disable SSL and add support for all TLS version you can change this line:
> ssl_protocols              SSLv3 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
> 
> to this:
> ssl_protocols              TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
> 
> regards,
> 
> Lars
> 
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