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Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
MITRE description: Apache 2 before 2.0.47, and certain versions of mod_ssl for Apache 1.3, do not properly handle "certain sequences of per-directory renegotiations and the SSLCipherSuite directive being used to upgrade from a weak ciphersuite to a strong one," which could cause Apache to use the weak ciphersuite.
Statement: This issue affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and an update was released to correct it: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-244.html Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 contained a backported patch to correct this issue since release. This issue does not affect the versions of Apache in Enterprise Linux 4 or later.