Comment 1 for bug 1383379

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Thomas Ward (teward) wrote :

In discussion with mdeslaur on IRC, I'm attaching DebDiffs for Ubuntu in the off chance the release team wishes to push these changes.

A few extra details as to why this is extremely relevant to being pushed and updated: A lot of newbie users that we see in the NGINX IRC channel for support end up using the default configuration file(s) as a template/law for their sites, and we end up seeing them just uncomment the SSL portion and use it. That opens them up to the POODLE vulnerability.

Upstream, in Debian, this was revised per POODLE so newbies wouldn't be exposing themselves to vulnerability, hence the rationale for this perhaps being pushed/updated. Unfortunately, all versions of nginx (including Lucid, which is being ignored intentionally) are impacted by POODLE and SSLv3, so it's better to just remove the SSLv3 protocol from the ssl_protocols line, mainly to prevent newbies from making their systems open to attack.