Bug 1154060

Summary:	curl: Disable out-of-protocol fallback to SSL 3.0
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component:	curl	Assignee:	Kamil Dudka <kdudka>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Stefan Kremen <skremen>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	7.1	CC:	andy.fletcher, bressers, fweimer, john.haxby, kdudka, ksrot, mitr, ovasik, qe-baseos-security, skremen, thoger
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:	curl-7.29.0-24.el7	Doc Type:	Deprecated Functionality
Doc Text:	An out-of-protocol fallback to SSL version 3.0 was available with libcurl. Attackers could abuse the fallback to force downgrade of the SSL version. The fallback has been removed from libcurl. Users requiring this functionality can explicitly enable SSL 3.0 through the libcurl API.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	1154059
Clones:	1166567 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2015-11-19 07:06:48 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1166567
Bug Blocks:	Red Hat1110700, 1154059, Red Hat1191021

Description Florian Weimer 2014-10-17 12:28:07 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1154059 +++

We should disable the retry-with-SSL-3.0 behavior in curl because it can be trivially triggered by an on-path attacker to cause a protocol downgrade, and SSL 3.0 has several known weaknesses.  This curl behavior is quite surprising because it is restricted to the NSS backend, and other systems which use the OpenSSL or GNUTLS backend do not share this behavior.

At this stage, it is best to leave SSL 3.0 enabled.  (The in-protocol version negotiation has not been broken, sosome TLS version will be used automatically if supported by the server.)

This might reintroduce bug 525496 and bug 527771, so a system-wide knob to re-enable the SSL 3.0 fallback might be necessary.  Perhaps the existence of a file like /etc/sysconfig/curl/enable-ssl-fallback could re-enable the old behavior.

Comment 2 Kamil Dudka 2014-10-29 14:26:08 UTC

The code in question has been removed from upstream libcurl:

https://github.com/bagder/curl/compare/07048941a4...276741af4d

Comment 30 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 07:06:48 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2159.html