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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.
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