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Bug#689936: marked as done (apache2: handling the CRIME attack)

Your message dated Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:25:50 +0100
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and subject line fixed in squeeze in DSA 2579-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #689936,
regarding apache2: handling the CRIME attack
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Source: root-system
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi folks,


AFAICS, Debian’s Apache2.2 is still vulnerable to CRIME.

Well, AFAIK, CRIME is thought to be fixed on the browser sides, by them
simply not using compression with TLS.
While this helps in many cases, IMHO it's not enough and I'd rather have
a way to force the server to secure things (just as it is, AFAIK, done
with the BEAST attack).


A feature to disable compression for mod_ssl has been backported to
2.2.x:
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53219

Can we cherry-pick this?


And perhaps enable it per default in mod_ssl's config.


Cheers,
Chris.

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version: apache2/2.2.16-6+squeeze10

fixed in squeeze in DSA 2579-1

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