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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 2014 03:03:59 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        ports-secteam@freebsd.org
Cc:        gecko@freebsd.org, chromium@freebsd.org
Subject:   POODLE SSLv3 vulnerability
Message-ID:  <86iojmgn40.fsf@nine.des.no>

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Summary: Google researchers have discovered a plaintext recovery attack
against SSL 3.0 with no known mitigation.

I would like us to ship Firefox with SSL 3.0 disabled by default.  This
means setting security.tls.version.min to 1, or, in terms of code,
changing the initial value of PSM_DEFAULT_MIN_TLS_VERSION from 0 to 1 in
security/manager/ssl/src/nsNSSComponent.cpp.  I assume that other
Mozilla ports use the same code and require the same changes.

Note that this does not preclude the user from changing the setting back
to 0 in about:config.

I would also like to do the same for Chrome, but I don't know the exact
procedure and I am unable to find out or test, since Chrome has been
broken for several months.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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