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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:48:05 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE assignment for POODLE
CVE-2014-3566 is currently assigned to an SSL 3.0 protocol vulnerability:
“The SSL protocol 3.0, as used in OpenSSL through 1.0.1i and other
products, uses nondeterministic CBC padding, which makes it easier for
man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain cleartext data via a
padding-oracle attack, aka the "POODLE" issue.”
What we seem to be lacking is a CVE assignment for the protocol
downgrade “dance” implemented by some browsers, explicitly designed to
negate the effect of the downgrade protection in the TLS protocol (the
protocol upgrade to TLS 1.0 and beyond is arguably the “fix” for
CVE-2014-3566 as it is described above).
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security
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