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    Any thoughts about the poodle SSL 3 bug?

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    • Deleted User
      Deleted User last edited by

      Hi,

      Opera 12.16 with clean default profile, is shown as "Not vulnerable" to Poodle attack by the site www.poodletest.com/

      http://âpp.com/Hfv5

      SSLv3 is enabled by default in Opera 12.16 but after the test done, SSLv3 is automatically disabled.
      I don't understand why.

      Opera 26 seems "vulnerable" and i don't know how to disable SSL v3 protocol support...

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      • g00g00
        g00g00 last edited by

        Hi,
        Opera 12.16 with clean default profile, is shown as "Not vulnerable" to Poodle attack by the site www.poodletest.com/
        http://âpp.com/Hfv5
        SSLv3 is enabled by default in Opera 12.16 but after the test done, SSLv3 is automatically disabled.
        I don't understand why.

        Opera 26 seems "vulnerable" and i don't know how to disable SSL v3 protocol support...

        Hello,
        You can run following command line, and SSL3 will be disable in your Opera 26 :

        %PATH-TO-YOUR-OPERA-VERSION%\opera.exe --ssl-version-min=tls1

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        • Deleted User
          Deleted User last edited by

          Oh, yes, same as Chrome, I should have known :awww:

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          • originalgbee
            originalgbee last edited by

            It appears that the --ssl-version-min argument is missing from opera-developer, so they must have removed it. So opera-developer is vulnerable and there is no way to fix that.

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            • christoph142
              christoph142 last edited by

              opera-developer is vulnerable

              No, it isn't.

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              • originalgbee
                originalgbee last edited by

                It fails the poodle test, Chromium and Firefox do not when configured not to use SSLv3.

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                • originalgbee
                  originalgbee last edited by

                  FWIW, while disallowing downgrading of the connection from TLS to SSLv3 technically defeats the exploit in question, opera-developer still supports SSLv3 which is just a half measure. SSLv3 was deprecated over a decade ago. Opera should drop support.

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                  • l33t4opera
                    l33t4opera last edited by

                    Hi @chas4 @praetorianx @alexcavaco @fritzr @ra-mon @g00g00 @originalgbee @christoph142, FYI:

                    "What we have done in Opera 25, is to add a countermeasure to the SSLv3 protocol when used. Since the attack can only be done to SSL records of certain lengths, we simply split the records into several records, where none of the records can be attacked. Adam Langley from Google who helped out developing the details of this idea named the countermeasure “anti poodle record splitting”. Hopefully this will help keeping SSLv3 secure enough for a few more months, and give server owners a chance to upgrade to TLS.

                    Next we have removed the security badge for SSLv3 servers. This means that when you go to a SSLv3 server, it will look as you got to a standard unencrypted http server.

                    Opera also supports the TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV mechanism. This is a security feature, if supported by both browser and server, that effectively stops unwanted fallbacks to lower TLS versions. Sadly, this feature is not widely supposed yet, but we hope that Server administrators pay attention to this attack and will upgrade their servers to support it. This way, future problems with higher TLS versions will not have the same devastating effect." - form more details, please read the "Security changes in Opera 25; the poodle attacks" \m/

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                    • chas4
                      chas4 last edited by

                      @l33t4opera I just read that blog post 🙂 & great myOpera rock smile 🙂

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                      • praetorianx
                        praetorianx last edited by

                        Thanks @l33t4opera.
                        It's always nice to be reassured that Opera is still on top of things when it comes to security.

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