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authorAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2015-07-20 11:46:36 +1200
committerAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2015-07-20 03:08:26 +0200
commit06f378fa652e0ff3cb5aae1b30eee4f73b570664 (patch)
tree014045265bed1dc83d3ca6deee522a78f4ccec1f /docs-xml
parent374d73617d71abf594cc92d335cd8bc60c10a1b7 (diff)
downloadsamba-06f378fa652e0ff3cb5aae1b30eee4f73b570664.tar.gz
lib/tls: Change default supported TLS versions.
The new default is to disable SSLv3, as this is no longer considered secure after CVE-2014-3566. Newer GnuTLS versions already disable SSLv3. Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> Pair-programmed-with: Garming Sam <garming@catalyst.net.nz> Signed-off-by: Garming Sam <garming@catalyst.net.nz>
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-rw-r--r--docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/tlspriority.xml6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/tlspriority.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/tlspriority.xml
index 345f0302764..d399eef8eef 100644
--- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/tlspriority.xml
+++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/tlspriority.xml
@@ -8,11 +8,15 @@
to be supported in the parts of Samba that use GnuTLS, specifically
the AD DC.
</para>
+ <para>The default turns off SSLv3, as this protocol is no longer considered
+ secure after CVE-2014-3566 (otherwise known as POODLE) impacted SSLv3 use
+ in HTTPS applications.
+ </para>
<para>The valid options are described in the
<ulink url="http://gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html">GNUTLS
Priority-Strings documentation at http://gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html</ulink>
</para>
</description>
- <value type="default">NORMAL</value>
+ <value type="default">NORMAL:-VERS-SSL3.0</value>
</samba:parameter>