On Sun, Apr 29, 2012, Mike Hoy wrote:

> We use McAfee to scan our website for vulnerabilities. They claim the
> following:
> 
> > Configure SSL/TLS servers to only use TLS 1.1 or TLS 1.2 if supported.
> > Configure SSL/TLS servers to only support cipher suites that do not use
> > block ciphers. Apply patches if available.
> 
> I ran #openssl version and it says we are using OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5
> 01 Jul 2008.
> 
> Do we need to upgrade our OpenSSL to upgrade our TLS/SSL server? Sorry if
> the question is way off-base but I am not a system administrator normally.
> This is new to me. We use CentOS and #yum install openssl claims it is
> already at the higest version. Any suggestions appreciated.
> 

FYI: this is most likely the BEAST attack it is referring to.

Steve.
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Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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