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MEDIUM

security flaw

Published Jul 10, 2003

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.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat 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.

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Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (23)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jul 10, 2003
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Apr 1, 2003
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Jul 9, 2003